Author: Karl Maria Kertbeny
Alternate names: K. M. Kertbeny, Karl Maria Kertbeny, Karl Maria Benkert; Károly Mária Benkert; Károly Mária Kertbeny; K. M. Kertbeny; C. von Kertbeny
Born: 1824
Died: 1882
Bio: Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl Maria Benkert; 28 February 1824 – 23 January 1882) was a Hungarian journalist, translator, memoirist, and human rights campaigner. Kertbeny coined the words heterosexual and homosexual as the German nouns Heterosexual and Homosexual.