August Homburger (1873–1930) was a prominent German

child psychiatrist Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial fact ...

, hailed as a "pioneer" in the field. He taught as a professor at

Heidelberg University } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, where he was the founder alongside

Ernst Moro Ernst Moro (8 December 1874 in Laibach, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary, today Ljubljana, Slovenia – 1951) was an Austrian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe the infant reflex that was named after h ...

of the Children's Counselling Centre. He wrote extensively about

Haltlose personality disorder Haltlose personality disorder was a type of personality disorder diagnosis largely used in German-, Russian- and French-speaking countries. The German word ''haltlose'' refers to being "unstable" (literally: "without footing"), and in English- ...

in children.Homburger, August. "Vorlesungen über Psychopathologie des Kindesalters". Berlin 1926. Pgs 304-324 Leon Eisenburg credited Homburger's 1926

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"Lectures on the Psychopathology of Childhood" as the first comprehensive source on childhood psychiatry. The Past 50 Years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir
LEON EISENBERG, M.D.

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