Karl Heinrich Ulrichs Biography
- Title:
- Lawyer and Gay advocate
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"
- Reasoning:
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“Urnings [male homosexuals] result from a crossing of the male and female generative principles during the first crucial stages of fetal development. Thus Urnings are essentially ‘male’ in body, ‘female’ in desire.”
Inclusa, 1864
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Argued before the Congress of German Jurists for the abolition of sodomy laws, 1867
- Developed the concept that homosexuals belonged to a “third sex” and their attraction to members of the same sex was as natural as the attraction of heterosexuals to members of the opposite sex
- Named Secretary of All German Society, 1859
- Education:
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- Law degree, Berlin University, 1848
- Other:
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- Born: 1825
- Deceased: 1895