Magnus Hirschfeld Medal
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The Magnus Hirschfeld Medal is awarded by the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
The German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research [in German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung ] is a sexuality research and counselling organization . It is primarily devoted to sociological, behavioral, and cultural sexuality research...

 (DGSS) for outstanding service to sexual science
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....

, granted in the categories "Sexual Research" and "Sexual Reform". It is named in honour of German sexology
Sexology
Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....

 pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which Dustin Goltz called "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."-Early life:Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in a...

 (without the DGSS sharing his dated 'biologistic' sexual theory).

Winners for contributions to sexual research
  • 1990 Ernest Borneman
    Ernest Borneman
    Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable curiosity...

     (Austria)
  • 1992 John P. De Cecco (USA)
  • 1994 Liu Dalin
    Liu Dalin
    Liu Dalin, also sometimes Dalin Liu or Ta-lin Liu, is a retired professor of sociology at Shanghai University who pioneered the field of sexology in China....

     (China)
  • 1997 Jonathan Ned Katz
    Jonathan Ned Katz
    Jonathan Ned Katz is an American historian of human sexuality who has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social organization of sexuality over time...

     (USA)
  • 2000 Milton Diamond
    Milton Diamond
    Milton Diamond is a retired professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality...

     (USA)
  • 2002 John Money
    John Money
    John William Money was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender...

     (USA)
  • 2004 Martin S. Weinberg (USA)
  • 2006 Richard Green
    Richard Green (sexologist)
    Richard Green is an American sexologist, psychiatrist, lawyer, and author specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism, specifically gender identity disorder in children. Green is the founding editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior , and served as Editor until 2001...

     (USA/UK)
  • 2008 Hu Peicheng (China)


Winners for contributions to sexual reform
  • 1990 Herman Musaph
    Herman Musaph
    Herman Musaph was a Dutch holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist.Musaph was born in Amsterdam. He studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam. In 1977 Musaph became Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht...

     (Netherlands)
  • 1992 Imre Aszódi (Hungary)
  • 1994 Ruth K. Westheimer (USA)
  • 1997 Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan (Sweden)
  • 2000 Oswalt Kolle
    Oswalt Kolle
    Oswalt Kolle was a German sex educator, who became famous during the late 1960s and early 1970s for his numerous pioneering books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide. In his 1997 book Open to...

     (Netherlands)
  • 2002 Manfred Bruns
    Manfred Bruns
    Manfred Bruns is former attorney general at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, and is a famous German gay civil rights activist. He is a member of the Board of Director of the Lesbian and Gay Association .-References:...

     (Germany) and William Granzig
    William Granzig
    William Granzig, Ph.D., MPH, FAACS is an American sexologist.He is the President and Professor and Dean of Clinical Sexology at Maimonides University in North Miami Beach, Florida. He is the Director and primary professor of the university's sexology program. Dr...

     (USA)
  • 2004 Rolf Gindorf
    Rolf Gindorf
    Rolf Gindorf is a German sexologist. He is also a member of Mensa.-Life and work:Originally a graduate from a language school , Dr. Gindorf first worked as a translator...

     (Germany)
  • 2006 Rita Süssmuth (Germany)
  • 2008 Robert T. Francoeur
    Robert T. Francoeur
    Robert T. Francoeur , Ph.D., A.C.S., is an American biologist and sexologist.Dr. Francoeur was born on October 18, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and English at Sacred Heart College in 1953, a M.A. in Catholic theology at Saint Vincent College in 1957, a M.S. in biology...

    (USA)
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