Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld was a Jewish German physician and sexologist educated primarily in Germany he based his practice in BerlinCharlottenburg. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee. Historian Dustin Goltz characterized this group as having carried out the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights.

Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in an Ashkenazi Jewish family, the son of a highly regarded physician and Medizinalrat Hermann Hirschfeld. In 18871888 he studied philosophy and philology in Breslau, then from 1888 to 1892 medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg, and Berlin. In 1892 he earned his doctoral degree.

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