Leopold von SacherMasoch was born in Lemberg Austrian Galicia on January 271836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz and in 1857 became a teacherat the ... » 

Leopold von SacherMasoch was born in Lemberg Austrian Galicia on January 271836. He studied jurisprudence at Prague and Graz and in 1857 became a teacherat the latter university. He published several historical works but soon gaveup his academic career to devote himself wholly to literature. For a number ofyears he edited the international review Auf der Hohe at Leipzig but laterremoved to Paris for he was always strongly Francophile. His last years hespent at Lindheim in Hesse Germany where he died on March 9 1895. In 1873 hemarried Aurora von Rumelin who wrote a number of novels under the pseudonym ofWanda von Dunajew which it is interesting to note is the name of the heroineof Venus in Furs. Her sensational memoirs which have been the cause ofconsiderable controversy were published in 1906. «