August Homburger (1873–1930) was a prominent German child psychiatrist, hailed as a "pioneer" in the field.[1]
He taught as a professor at Heidelberg University, where he was the founder alongside Ernst Moro of the Children's Counselling Centre.[2] He wrote extensively about Haltlose personality disorder in children.[3]
Leon Eisenburg credited Homburger's 1926 magnum opus "Lectures on the Psychopathology of Childhood" as the first comprehensive source on childhood psychiatry.[4]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg: History - Development of child and youth psychiatry". www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
- ^ Homburger, August. "Vorlesungen über Psychopathologie des Kindesalters". Berlin 1926. Pgs 304-324
- ^ The Past 50 Years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir, LEON EISENBERG, M.D.