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Magnus Hirschfeld  

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  • Born in 1868 to Jewish parents in Kolberg, a Prussian town on the Baltic coast, Magnus Hirschfeld became an important theorist of sexuality and the most prominent advocate of homosexual emancipation at the beginning of the 20th century. He first studied modern languages and then medicine, obtaning his degree in 1892. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Hirschfeld, Magnus]

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