Eugène Wilhelm, in German Eugen Wilhelm (1866 to 1951), was a French-German lawyer and sexologist, born in Strasbourg into a Protestant family. He studied law at Strasbourg between 1885 and 1890, took his doctorate in law in 1890 and then worked as a judge in Strasbourg, resigning in 1908 to avoid a scandal over his homosexuality. After the First World War he worked as a lawyer in Strasbourg until 1948. He published more than a hundred articles in French and German journals, mainly under the pseudonym Numa Praetorius, including in the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, and his legal books include a study of unlawfulness in the offence of insult (1890), a study of the legal position of intersex people (1909) and a work on French court organisation and the jury (1911).
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was a French-German lawyer and sexologist
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was a French-German lawyer and sexologist
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he worked as a judge in Strasbourg
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He resigned 1908 to avoid a homosexuality scandal
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