Karl-Maria Kertbeny
German journalist
Died when: 57 years 329 days (694 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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Károly Mária Kertbeny (or Karl Maria Benkert) (28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was a Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist, and human rights campaigner.
He is best known for coining the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexual and Homosexual.He translated Hungarian poets' and writers' works into German, e.g., those of Sándor Petőfi, János Arany and Mór Jókai.
Among his acquaintances were Heinrich Heine, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm.
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