Karl Philipp Moritz
(September 15, 1756 - June 26, 1793) Germany
Novelist
Moritz was born in Hameln. In 1789, he became a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Moritz was a gay writer whose autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785-90) portrays a young man suffering from psychological deprivation, who cross-dresses for the stage (at which he excels), and who longs to meet the famous writer Goethe in order to serve him.
He also edited a journal of psychology, Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde (1783-93), which published first- and third-person accounts of psychological anomalies, among them homosexuality.
Source: excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
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