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Iwan-Bloch-Straße, 27753 Delmenhorst, Germany
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Bloch (also known as Ivan Bloch) (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922) was a
German dermatologist and psychiatrist. Born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal
Oldenburg, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered
the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been
believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in
1904. In 1899 he had published Marquis de Sade: his life and works. under the
same pseudonym. Together with Magnus
Hirschfeld and Albert Eulenburg, Bloch proposed the new concept of a
science of sexuality: Sexualwissenschaft or sexology. In 1906 he wrote in
German the book Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur
modernen Kultur which was translated as The Sexual Life of our Time in its
Relations to Modern Civilization, a complete encyclopedia of the sexual
sciences in their relation to modern civilization.[1][2]
According to Sigmund Freud, Bloch's studies were instrumental in the development of the anthropological approach to the theory of sexuality. Before Bloch, homosexuality was analyzed using a pathological approach.[3]
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