Marc-Andre Raffalovich

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Country

Russia

Birth - Death

1864 - 1934

Occupation

Writer

Notable Achievements

Description

Poet, patron of the arts and noted critic of Oscar Wilde. Partnered with John Gray, though converted to Catholicism and in public kept a distance. Regarded as an expert on homosexuality at the time, based on his view that homosexual orientation is equivalent to heterosexual though practices are sinful.