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Hans Asperger was born in Neustiftgasse in the 7th district of Vienna, Austria, on 18 February 1906, [4] and was raised on a farm in Hausbrunn not far from the city. [1] He was the eldest of three sons; his younger brother died shortly after birth. [5][6] As a youth, he joined the Wandering Scholars of the Bund Neuland [7][8] (in the group of ...
Hans Asperger gave a very detailed report of Fritz and his efforts to understand his problems in his case report 'Autistic psychopathy' in childhood. [9] Fritz was a first child of his parents. According to Asperger, his mother was a descendant of "one of the greatest Austrian poets" and she described her family as "in the mad-genius mould."
Hans Asperger submitted a postdoctoral habilitation thesis on the topic of autism to the University of Vienna in October 1942, [65] which would be published with very few changes in June 1944. [91] The paper "Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter" (The "Autistic Psychopaths" in Childhood) [80] included four cases studies and related ...
Lorna Wing. Lorna Gladys Wing OBE FRCPsych (7 October 1928 – 6 June 2014) was an English psychiatrist. She was a pioneer in the field of childhood developmental disorders, who advanced understanding of autism worldwide, introduced the term Asperger syndrome in 1976 [1] and was involved in founding the National Autistic Society (NAS) in the UK.
Am Spiegelgrund was a children's clinic in Vienna during World War II, where 789 patients were murdered under child euthanasia in Nazi Germany. Between 1940 and 1945, the clinic operated as part of the psychiatric hospital Am Steinhof later known as the Otto Wagner Clinic within the Baumgartner Medical Center located in Penzing, the 14th ...
Named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Asperger syndrome is a relatively new diagnosis in the field of autism, [155] though a syndrome like it was described as early as 1925 by Soviet child psychiatrist Grunya Sukhareva (1891–1981), [156] leading some of those diagnosed with Asperger syndrome to instead refer to ...
Psychopathography of Adolf Hitler is an umbrella term for psychiatric (pathographic, psychobiographic) literature that deals with the hypothesis that Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, was mentally ill, although Hitler was never diagnosed with any mental illnesses during his lifetime. Hitler has often been associated with mental ...
The following events occurred in June 1944: ... Asperger syndrome was identified for the first time, in a paper by the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger. [9]