Gustav Aschaffenburg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Gustav Aschaffenburg
- Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866 – September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.
- In 1890 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on delirium tremens.
- Later he worked as an assistant to Emil Kraepelin at the psychiatric university clinic in Heidelberg.
- He then practiced psychiatric medicine at the University of Halle and at the Akademie für praktische Medizin in Cologne (from 1919 the University of Cologne).
- In the 1930s Aschaffenburg's academic career at Cologne was terminated by the Nazi edict, Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums, and he eventually emigrated to the United States, working as a professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C.
- and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Aschaffenburg was a pioneer in the fields of criminology and forensic psychiatry.
- In 1903 he published an early systematic study on the causes of crime titled "Das Verbrechen und seine Bekämpfung", in which he discusses individual-hereditary and social-environmental factors, and also dismisses Cesare Lombroso's idea of the so-called "born criminal".
- Later the work was translated into English, and published as Crime and Its Repression (1913).
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