Karl Heinrich Ulrichs

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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, engraving based on an undated portrait photograph
Born(1825-08-28)28 August 1825
Aurich, Kingdom of Hanover, German Confederation
Died14 July 1895(1895-07-14) (aged 69)
L'Aquila, Kingdom of Italy
Known forCampaigning for gay rights

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (28 August 1825 – 14 July 1895) was a German lawyer, jurist, journalist, and writer. He is today regarded[by whom?] as a pioneer of sexology[1] and the modern gay rights movement. Ulrichs has been described as the "first gay man in world history",[2][3] despite the fact that homosexuality was recorded since c. 9,600 BCE.[4][5]

  1. ^ Hans-Martin Lohmann: Geschichte der Sexualität – Vom Widerspruch her gedacht (Buchbesprechung: Volkmar Sigusch, Geschichte der Sexualwissenschaft, Campus, 2008), Frankfurter Rundschau Online.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sigusch was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Pretsell, Douglas (2024). Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. University of Toronto Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4875-5561-0.
  4. ^ Mussi, Margherita (31 October 2001). Earliest Italy: An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Kluwer Academic. pp. 343–344. ISBN 978-0-306-46463-8.
  5. ^ Schott, Landon (2016). "In the Beginning: Sexual History". Gay Awareness: Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ On Sexuality. Austin, Texas: Famous Publishing. ISBN 978-1942306481.