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Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger (/ ˈ æ s p ɜːr ɡ ər /, German: [hans ˈʔaspɛɐ̯ɡɐ]; 18 February 1906 – 21 October 1980 [1]) was an Austrian physician.Noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, he is the namesake of the former autism spectrum disorder Asperger syndrome.
The Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger was born in Vienna in 1906. In 1929, German psychiatrist Erich Rudolf Jaensch (of the University of Marburg) published his book Grundformen menschlichen Seins (Basic forms of human existence). [91] Asperger would later say his autism thinking was influenced by its explanation of schizothyms. [57]
He has talked in public a number of times about having “Asperger’s syndrome” (a term that fell out of favor as researchers learned the extent of Hans Asperger’s collaboration with the Nazi ...
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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."
Asperger was investigating Asperger syndrome which, for various reasons, was not widely considered a separate diagnosis until 1981, [90] although both are now considered part of ASD. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital first used autism in English to refer to classic autism when he introduced the label early infantile autism in a 1943 ...
Asperger or Asperger's may also refer to: Hans Asperger (1906–1980), Austrian pediatrician with ties to eugenics after whom Asperger syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder, is named Asperger's Are Us , the first comedy troupe formed by people with Asperger syndrome