About August Homburger
Lived 1873 – 1930 (aged 56). August Homburger was a physician, psychiatrist and university teacher.
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.
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Who was August Homburger?
German child psychiatrist
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August Homburger was born on 18 December 1873 in Frankfurt.
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August Homburger died on 29 June 1930 in Frankfurt.
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August Homburger was a physician, psychiatrist and university teacher.
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