Editing Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (section)

===Early life and education===
Von Sacher-Masoch was born in the city of [[Lemberg]], the capital of the [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria]] (now [[Lviv]], [[Ukraine]]), at the time a province of the [[Austrian Empire]], into the [[Roman Catholic]] family.  His parents were an Austrian civil servant,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/world/city-tied-to-masochism-finds-link-painful-sure-but-some-like-it.html "City in Ukraine Tied to Masochism Finds Link Painful, Sure, but Some Like It"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423104553/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/world/city-tied-to-masochism-finds-link-painful-sure-but-some-like-it.html |date=23 April 2021 }} by Andrew Higgins, ''[[The New York Times]]'', 14 November 2014</ref> Leopold Johann Nepomuk [[Ritter]] von Sacher, and Charlotte Josepha von Masoch, a [[Western Ukrainian Nobility|Ukrainian noblewoman]].<ref>[http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20044/70 The cultural legacy of Sacher-Masoch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201103070209/http://wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20044%2F70 |date=3 November 2020 }}{{dubious|date=December 2023}} Nataliya Kosmolinska and Yury Okhrimenko</ref> The father later combined his surname with his wife's ''von Masoch'', at the request of her family (she was the last of the line). Von Sacher served as a Commissioner of the Imperial Police Forces in Lemberg, and he was recognised with a new title of [[Austrian nobility]] as Sacher-Masoch awarded by the [[Franz Joseph I of Austria|Austrian Emperor]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Sacher-Masoch|first=Leopold Von|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KOFSMQAACAAJ|title=Venus in Furs|date=2017-01-18|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|isbn=978-1-5426-1563-1|language=en}}</ref>

Leopold studied law, history and mathematics at [[Graz University]] (where he obtained a doctorate in history in 1856), and after graduating he became a lecturer there.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von 1836–1895 |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sacher-masoch-leopold-von-1836-1895 |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=encyclopedia.com |archive-date=30 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530144550/https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/sacher-masoch-leopold-von-1836-1895 |url-status=live }}</ref>