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Iwan Bloch

1872 - 1922

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Iwan Bloch (8 April 1872 – 21 November 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, was a German dermatologist, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, and often called the first sexologist. Together with Magnus Hirschfeld and Albert Eulenburg, Bloch is known for having proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality (Sexualwissenschaft) or sexology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iwan Bloch has received more than 81,622 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Iwan Bloch is the 4,292nd most popular writer (down from 3,845th in 2019), the 4,220th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,635th in 2019) and the 260th most popular German Writer.

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Notable Works

Die Prostitution
1912
Odoratus Sexualis
Smell, Perfumes, Odors
1933
A History of English Sexual Morals
1936
Marquis de Sade
French Male authors, Paraphilias, Sexual behavior
1948
The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization
Sex, Sex (Psychology), Sexual ethics
1909
Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur
Sexual Hygiene, Sexual behavior, Sexual ethics
1907

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Iwan Bloch ranks 4,292 out of 7,302. Before him are Leopold Staff, Veijo Meri, Florbela Espanca, Ibrahim Tuqan, Maeve Binchy, and Gervase of Tilbury. After him are William Trevor, František Langer, Vincenzo Cerami, Colm Tóibín, Hervé Le Tellier, and Diane Disney Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Iwan Bloch ranks 132. Before him are Paul-Émile Janson, Léon Delagrange, Barbu Știrbey, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, and Walter Wild. After him are Sergei Vasilenko, Walther Reinhardt, Friedrich, Prince of Wied, Augusts Kirhenšteins, Kote Marjanishvili, and Mehdi Frashëri. Among people deceased in 1922, Iwan Bloch ranks 100. Before him are Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Jorge Montt, Otto Lehmann, William Henry Hudson, Takamine Jōkichi, and Ernest Lavisse. After him are Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ferdinand Keller, José de Amézola y Aspizúa, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Berthold Delbrück, and Take Ionescu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Iwan Bloch ranks 4,220 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1709), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), Heinz Strehl (1938), Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (1976), Percy Adlon (1935), and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771). After him are Nicole (1964), Oskar von Miller (1855), Fritz Reuter (1810), Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), and Marianne Werner (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Iwan Bloch ranks 260. Before him are Brigitte Hamann (1940), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Rist (1607), Carl Sternheim (1878), Bel Kaufman (1911), and Joachim Ringelnatz (1883). After him are Fritz Reuter (1810), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Dorothee Sölle (1929), Ruth Westheimer (1928), and Elke Erb (1938).

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