Krafft-Ebing

[ kraft-eb-ing, krahft-; German krahft-ey-bingk ]

noun

1. Rich·ard [rich, -erd, rikh, -ah, r, t], Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.

Krafft-Ebing

/ ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ /

noun

1. Krafft-EbingRichard, Baron von18401902MGermanSCIENCE: neurologistMEDICINE: psychiatrist Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)

Example Sentences

Some progress has been made, helped by committed individuals including Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the late nineteenth century, and William Masters and Virginia Johnson in the 1960s.

From Nature

Krafft-Ebing said that he never saw a case of true and reasonably well developed paranoia without hereditary taint.

From Project Gutenberg

Krafft-Ebing, at the International Medical Congress at Moscow in 1897, detailed some experiments that he had made on paretics in Vienna.

From Project Gutenberg

I want to look at her!” express an unhealthy arousal that Krafft-Ebing would find hard to classify.

From New York Times

In this characterisation I have overpassed the limits of the fifteen cases presented by Krafft-Ebing.

From Project Gutenberg