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Iwan Bloch (also known as Ivan Bloch) (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922) was a Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 dermatologist
Dermatology

Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and Skin disease, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the words dermologie and, a little later, dermatologia ....
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Born in Delmenhorst
Delmenhorst

Delmenhorst is an urban district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of 76,000 and is located between Bremen and Oldenburg. The city has a total area of 62.36 km? and a population density of about 1219 per km?....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, he is often called the first sexologist
Sexology

Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, pedagogics, sociology, anthropology, and criminology....
. He discovered the Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse Fran?ois de Sade, Marquis de Sade was a France aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical novel and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia....
's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom
120 Days of Sodom

The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness is a novel by the France writer and nobleman Marquis de Sade, written in 1785. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate in orgies....
, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904.

In 1899 he had published Marquis de Sade: his life and works.

Together with Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and early gay rights advocate....
 and Albert Eulenburg
Albert Eulenburg

Albert Eulenburg was a German neurologist who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Berlin, University of Bern and University of Zurich, and in 1861 earned his doctorate....
, Bloch proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality: Sexualwissenschaft or sexology
Sexology

Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, pedagogics, sociology, anthropology, and criminology....
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Iwan Bloch (also known as Ivan Bloch) (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922) was a Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 dermatologist
Dermatology

Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and Skin disease, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the words dermologie and, a little later, dermatologia ....
.

Born in Delmenhorst
Delmenhorst

Delmenhorst is an urban district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of 76,000 and is located between Bremen and Oldenburg. The city has a total area of 62.36 km? and a population density of about 1219 per km?....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, he is often called the first sexologist
Sexology

Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, pedagogics, sociology, anthropology, and criminology....
. He discovered the Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade

Donatien Alphonse Fran?ois de Sade, Marquis de Sade was a France aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical novel and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia....
's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom
120 Days of Sodom

The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness is a novel by the France writer and nobleman Marquis de Sade, written in 1785. It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate in orgies....
, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904.

In 1899 he had published Marquis de Sade: his life and works.

Together with Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and early gay rights advocate....
 and Albert Eulenburg
Albert Eulenburg

Albert Eulenburg was a German neurologist who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Berlin, University of Bern and University of Zurich, and in 1861 earned his doctorate....
, Bloch proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality: Sexualwissenschaft or sexology
Sexology

Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology, medicine, psychology, statistics, epidemiology, pedagogics, sociology, anthropology, and criminology....
. In 1906 he wrote "The sexual life of our time", a complete encyclopedia of the sexual sciences in their relation to modern civilization Transl. eng. (1909) . Rebman, London. .

Iwan Bloch began the publication of his "Handbuch der gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen" (Handbook of Sexology in its Entirety Presented in Separate Studies). Three volumes appeared, the project was aborted because of Bloch's untimely death.

  • Prostitution, vol. I (1912) — Iwan Bloch
  • Homosexuality in Men and Women (1914) — Magnus Hirschfeld
  • Prostitution, vol. II (after 1922) — Iwan Bloch
  • Rétif de la Bretonne
    Nicolas-Edme Rétif

    Nicolas-Edme R?tif or Nicolas-Edme Restif , called R?tif de la Bretonne, was a France novelist. He was the son of a farmer, and was born at Sacy, Yonne ....
    , der Mensch, der Schriftsteller, der Reformator    , (Berlin, 1906)
  • Rétif-Bibliothek, bibliography (Berlin, 1906)
  • Sexual Life in England — Past and Present, Alfred Aldor, London, 1938


Legacy

According to Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. Before Bloch, homosexuality was analyzed using a pathological approach. (Freud, Three Essays of the Theory of Sexuality, 5.)

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