Editing Richard von Krafft-Ebing (section)

=== Activities in Vienna ===
Given the reputation that Richard von Krafft-Ebing had meanwhile established in the professional world—as he was also frequently consulted abroad (Italy, France, Russia, etc.)—it was inevitable that he was first appointed in 1889 to Vienna at the ''I. Psychiatric Clinic of the Lower Austrian State Asylum'' following [[Maximilian Leidesdorf]], and he became a professor of psychiatry at the [[University of Vienna]].<ref>''Small Chronicle - Vienna, April 2 - From the University'' (right column below), in: Neue Freie Presse, Morning Paper, No. 8839, April 3, 1889, [https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?apm=0&aid=nfp&datum=18890403&seite=4&zoom=2 p. 4]</ref> In 1892, after the death of [[Theodor Meynert]], he was called to the psychiatric university clinic of the [[General Hospital of the City of Vienna]]. Several professional publications appeared again from his pen, such as in 1894 his well-known monographs on ''[[Neurolues|Progressive Paralysis]]''—a disease he also highlighted in 1897 at the International Medical Congress in [[Moscow]] in a highly regarded lecture.

According to Volkmar Sigusch, he adopted the degeneration theories of his French research colleagues<ref>{{cite book | last=Sigusch | first=Volkmar | title=Geschichte der Sexualwissenschaft |trans-title=History of Sexual Science | publisher=Campus Verlag | publication-place=Frankfurt | date=2008-05-13 | isbn=978-3-593-38575-4 | language=de | page=191}}</ref> and borrowed the term [[wiktionary:Sadism|Sadism]] used in France since 1834 (Dictionnaire universel de Boiste, eighth edition)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/fre_b1886158 |author1=Pierre Claude Victoire Boiste |author2=Charles Nodier |trans-title=Universal Dictionary of the French Language, with Latin and Etymologies, Comparative Excerpt, Concordance, Critique and Supplement of All French Dictionaries |title=Dictionnaire universel de la langue française, avec le latin et les étymologies, extrait comparatif, concordance, critique et supplément de tous les dictionnaires français |language=fr |year=1834}}</ref> as the name for a pathology. The now well-known technical term "[[Masochism]]" was coined by him.<ref>For the development of the theoretical construct "Perversion" by Krafft-Ebing and its relation to these terms, see {{cite journal |first=Andrea |last=Beckmann |journal=Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture |volume=8 |issue=2 |year=2001 |pages=66–95 |url=https://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is2/beckmann.html |title=Deconstructing myths: the social construction of "sadomasochism" versus "subjugated knowledges" of practitioners of consensual "SM"  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170806/http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is2/beckmann.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 }}</ref> He also dealt extensively with [[Suggestion|Hypnotism]] and was one of the first to apply it clinically. Increasingly, he was called in as a forensic expert.

For the subsequent generation of researchers around [[Magnus Hirschfeld]], Krafft-Ebing's findings and his strict empirical method formed the starting point for their own research.