Author: Aletrino, A.
Title: Is celstraf nog langer geoorloofd en gewenscht?
Description: Amsterdam & Leipzig : Maas & Van Suchtelen, 1906. Modern cloth binding. Orig. printed covers included. [6],170 pp. Bookplate. Library stamps. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Treatise questioning solitary confinement by Arnold Aletrino (1858-1916), a Dutch physician, criminal anthropologist and writer, who published works. He was a member of the Tachtigers, a group of young and revolutionary Dutch authors, who despised the pious poetry and prose of the mid-nineteenth century Dutch Victorian writers. Aletrino had been schooled by Cesare Lombroso, who attempted to explain criminality in light of a degenerating central nervous system. In 1901 he defended homosexuals at the Fifth Congress of Criminal Anthropology in Amsterdam. He was accused of defending immorality. He continued to fight throughout his life to engender a more tolerant and understanding attitude of homosexuality. In 1912 he participated in founding the Dutch branch of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which was first founded in Germany in 1897 by gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld.

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