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(June 13 1894 – April 4 1981),was born in Klekotow, Austria.He was an famous psychiatrist and physician known for his work about to autism.
He studied at the University of Berlin from 1913, his studies broken by service with the Austrian Army in World War I, finally receiving his MD in 1921.
He emigrated to the United States in 1924 to take a position as an Assistant Physician at the State Hospital in Yankton County, South Dakota. In 1930 he was selected to develop the first child psychiatry service in a pediatric hospital at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He became Associate Professor of Psychiatry in 1933.

He was the first physician in the United States to be identified as a child psychiatrist and his first textbook, Child Psychiatry in 1935, was the first English language textbook to focus on the psychiatric problems of children. His seminal 1943 paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact (pdf), together with the work of Hans Asperger, forms the basis of the modern study of autism.

He became Director of Child Psychiatry in 1957. He retired in 1959 but remained active until his death at the age of 87.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 4:46 pm and is filed under History of Autism.