Krafft-Ebing

American  

[kraft-eb-ing, krahft-, krahft-ey-bingk] / ˈkræftˈɛb ɪŋ, ˈkrɑft-, ˈkrɑftˈeɪ bɪŋk /

noun

1. Richard Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.

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Krafft-Ebing British  

/ ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ /

noun

1. Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

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Example Sentences

Hirschfeld’s own predecessor, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, had claimed in the 19th century that homosexuality was natural sexual variation—and Hirschfeld believed that a person was congenitally born that way.

From Scientific American • May 10, 2021

Some progress has been made, helped by committed individuals including Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the late nineteenth century, and William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s.

From Nature • Oct. 3, 2017

Wiseman, his eyes dead cold, his face frozen into a mask of menace, looks like a Krafft-Ebing case history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Krafft-Ebing fantasies glow like 15th century Van Eycks beneath Metropolitan Museum-style picture lamps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both Krafft-Ebing and Moll noted a similar tendency.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock