August Homburger

August Homburger (1873–1930) was a prominent German child psychiatrist, hailed as a "pioneer" in the field.

He taught as a professor at Heidelberg University, where he was the founder alongside Ernst Moro of the Children's Counselling Centre. He wrote extensively about the haltlose personality disorder in children.

Leon Eisenburg credited Homburger's 1926 magnum opus "Lectures on the Psychopathology of Childhood" as the first comprehensive source on childhood psychiatry.

References

  1. ↑ Kanner, L. (August 1955). "August Homburger: pioneer in child psychiatry". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 112 (2): 146–148. doi:10.1176/ajp.112.2.146. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 13238638.
  2. ↑ "Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg: History - Development of child and youth psychiatry". www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  3. ↑ Homburger, August. "Vorlesungen über Psychopathologie des Kindesalters". Berlin 1926. Pgs 304-324
  4. ↑ The Past 50 Years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir, LEON EISENBERG, M.D.