Weininger, Otto, (Vienna, 1880-1903, Vienna), published in 1903 Geschlecht und Charakter, a treatise asserting the intellectual superiority of man over woman. Though Weininger was himself of Jewish descent, the book, which was widely read, depreciated the character of the Jewish race. Weininger took his own life in the year of publication. Über die letzten Dinge (1904) and Die Liebe und das Weib (1917) appeared posthumously.

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