Leo Kanner

Leo Kanner ( born June 13, 1896 in Klekotow (now Klekotiv ), Galicia, Austria - Hungary ( now Ukraine), † April 3, 1981 in Sykesville, Maryland ) was an Austrian- American child and adolescent psychiatrist, the first early childhood autism described, which is after him also called Kanner's autism.

1913 Kanner began to study medicine at the University of Berlin. During the First World War, he was drafted into the Austro- Hungarian army and had to interrupt his studies. After the war, Kanner his studies. In 1919 he earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin. In 1924 he emigrated to the United States. There he took a job as assistant in psychiatry at the hospital in Yankton County, South Dakota, at. In 1930 Leo built at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is considered the founder of child and adolescent psychiatry in the United States. In 1943, he described it as the first day so-called early infantile autism ( Kanner 's syndrome).

Writings

  • Autistic disturbances of affective contact. In: Nervous Child, 1943, Volume 2, pp. 217-250.
  • Psychiatrist
  • Child and adolescent psychiatrist
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Austrian
  • Americans
  • Autism
  • Born 1896
  • Died in 1981
  • Man
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