“Unfortunately, in the majority of cases the positive aspects of autism do not outweigh the negative ones.”
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Hans Asperger
Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger was an Austrian physician. He studied atypical neurology, specifically in children, and is the namesake of Asperger syndrome. He wrote more than 300 publications on psychological disorders that posthumously acquired international renown in the 1980s.
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science · Austrian physician (1906–1980) · psychiatrist · university teacher · pediatrician · physician · also Hans Asperger, Johann Friedrich Karl Asperger, Johann Asperger, Asperger
Born 18 February 1906 · Died 21 October 1980 · Q78512
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Asperger's syndrome was named after Hans Asperger, who aided the Nazis in the euthanasia of children deemed mentally incompetent.” True.
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2018· 2 entries
clinicaladvisor.com: Hans Asperger, Leading Autism Researcher, Tied to Nazi Child Euthanasia Program
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That Asperger cooperated with the Nazi regime, including sending children to the Am Spiegelgrund clinic which participated in the euthanasia program
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2015· 2 entries
Before the publication of the archives studied by Czech, Silberman openly supports Asperger's work, postulating that, if Asperger's syndrome had been used as the basis for defining autism in the twentieth century, rather
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Describes Asperger's syndrome as “a disorder of uncertain nosological validity”
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2010· 1 entry
There was a majority consensus to subsume Asperger's syndrome into the diagnosis "Autistic Spectrum Disorder" in the 2013 DSM-5 diagnostic manual
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2007· 1 entry
Viktoria Lyons and Michael Fitzgerald, a controversial expert in retrospective diagnosis, hypothesized that Hans Asperger himself had Asperger's syndrome, as they believed that as a child he exhibited features of the ver
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2002· 1 entry
Gives her article an explicit title: "Hans Aspergers Verteidigung der 'autistischen Psychopathen' gegen die NSEgenik'", i
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1993· 1 entry
And the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th revision (DSM-IV) in 1994, some half a century after Asperger's original research
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1991· 1 entry
Wrote: "We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-10-21.
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1977· 1 entry
And died three years later on 21 October 1980, after a short illness
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1974· 1 entry
“the time for National Socialism came, it was clear from my previous life that one could well accept many”
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1964· 1 entry
Was in charge of SOS–Kinderdorf in Hinterbrüh
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1962· 1 entry
A member of Asperger's family believed that he had saved Aurel from "castration" and possibly worse
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1961· 1 entry
Gertrud Asperger completed her doctorate at Innsbruck
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1948· 1 entry
Co-founded the pediatric clinic, Österreichische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heilpädagogik (now the Heilpädagogische Gesellschaft Österreichs) in Innsbruck, Austria, for 5 years, succeeding Richard Priesel, who died sudde
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1946· 1 entry
Because he was not a member of the NSDAP
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1945· 1 entry
Returning to the department he was directing, which had been destroyed by a bombardment
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1944· 3 entries
That resembled the definition published earlier by Russian neurologist Grunya Sukhareva in 1926
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By a bombing, in which Sister Viktorine Zak was killed
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After the publication of his landmark paper describing autistic symptoms, Asperger found a permanent tenured post at the University of Vienna
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1943· 2 entries
The description of an "autistic psychopathy of childhood"
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Passing the political control of the National Socialist League of German Lecturers
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1942· 1 entry
Following a request addressed to his superior Franz Hamburger, Asperger took part in a selection of patients aimed at separating the "uneducable" from those who could become German citizens
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1940· 1 entry
Asperger obtained a position as a medical expert in Vienna, for which he was responsible for diagnosing "hereditary diseases" and proposing forced sterilization in the interest of the Nazi eugenics program
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1939· 1 entry
Published an article with his colleague Heribert Goll, in which he "demonstrated" that innate or hereditary characteristics determine later personality traits
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1935· 2 entries
Whom he met during a mountain hike, and with whom he had five children; four daughters and a son: Gertrud (born 1936), Hans (born 1938), Hedwig (born 1940), Maria (born 1946) and Brigitte (born 1948)
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Hans Asperger married Hanna Kalmon in 1935, whom he met during a mountain hike, and with whom he had five children; four daughters and a son: Gertrud (born 1936), Hans (born 1938), Hedwig (born 1940), Maria (born 1946) and Brigitte (born 1948).
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1934· 1 entry
Was invited to work with Paul Schröder at the psychiatric clinic in Leipzig
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1932· 1 entry
Hans Asperger took over in May 1934 or 1935, as head of the department of Heilpädagogik (or: Heilpädagogische curative pedagogy) at the pediatric clinic in Vienna
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1931· 2 entries
And became director of the special education section at the university's children's clinic in Vienna in 1932
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And with whom he co-authored an article the following year
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1930· 1 entry
The Vienna University Paediatric Clinic became a beacon of anti-Jewish policy, long before the Nazi takeover
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1929· 1 entry
Franz Hamburger expelled the Jewish doctors from the clinic, and also tried to remove the women
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1921· 1 entry
The Austria-based Bund was a split-off from the Christian-German Student Union (CDSB) but stressed its affinities with the German Youth Movement (
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-02-18.
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