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Karl Philipp Moritz
(September 15, 1756 - June 26, 1793) Germany

Karl Philipp Moritz

Novelist

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Karl Philipp MoritzMoritz 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.

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Source: excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002

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