Karl-Maria Kertbeny or Károly Mária Kertbeny (born Karl-Maria Benkert) (1824 - 1882) was born in Vienna, the son of a writer and a painter. He was an Austrian-born Hungarian journalist, memoirist and human rights campaigner who coined the word homosexual. The Benkert family moved to Budapest when he was a child -- he was equally at home in Austria, Hungary and Germany.
