Lucien von Römer

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Lucien Sophie Albert Marie von Römer (born August 23, 1873 in Kampen , Netherlands , † December 23, 1965 in Malang , Indonesia ) was a Dutch sexologist , doctor and botanist .

Life

Von Römer grew up in Kampen in his childhood. He studied medicine at the University of Leiden and the University of Amsterdam until 1903 . He practiced as a neurologist in the Netherlands. His medical interest was in part on the subject of homosexuality . He worked in Berlin with the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and with Albert Moll .

In the magazine Yearbook for Sexual Intermediate Levels , he published articles regularly, with his first article published there by the French King Henry III. and whose sexual identity acted. As early as 1902 he published articles in the magazine Jahrbuch für Sexuelle Zwischenstufen on anti-homosexual activities in Holland in the 18th century and a study on androgyny . A dissertation on these topics was rejected by the University of Amsterdam.

In 1909/1910 von Römer took part in a scientific expedition to New Guinea . He discovered a number of plants, some of which were later named after him. In 1913 he left the Netherlands and moved to the Dutch East Indies . where he lived until the end of his life in Malang on the island of Java and had a practice for psychiatry. In 1921 he married the pianist Eugenie Gallois and had a son.

Literature (selection)

  • JH Kompagnie: Inventory of the archief van de familie Von Römer, 16e-20e eeuw. Archie inventory number: 2.21.143. Nationaal Archief, Den Haag 1980, p. 7: on activities and exact dates of life (Dutch; gahetna.nl [PDF; 319 kB]).
  • M. van Lieshout: Op zoek naar de library van Lucien von Römer. In: De Boekenwereld. 10 (1993), ISSN  0168-8391 , pp. 3-12.
  • M. van Lieshout: Het ongekende leed van een tropendokter. In: Hans Hafkamp, ​​Maurice van Lieshout (ed.): Pijlen van naamloze liefde. Pioneers of homo-emancipatie. SUA, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-6222-173-4 , pp. 89-95.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Warren Johansson: Römer, LSAM von (1873-1965). In: Wayne R. Dynes (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (= Garland reference library of social science. 492,2). Volume 2: M-Index. Garland Publishing, New York, N.Y. 1990, ISBN 978-0-8240-6544-7 , pp. 1126-1127 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ^ Gert Hekma: Römer, Lucien Sophie Albert Marie von. In: Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon (eds.): Who's Who in Gay & Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II. Psychology Press, 2002, ISBN 0-415-15983-0 , pp. 449 f. ( Preview of 2nd, revised edition. Routledge Florence, Taylor & Francis Group, London / New York, N.Y. 2003, 2005 edition in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Global plants: Lucien von Römer. In: JSTOR . Retrieved May 19, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Römer, Lucien of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Römer, Lucien Sophie Albert Marie from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor, sexologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Kampen , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1965
Place of death Malang , Indonesia