Leo Eitinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leo Eitinger

Czech pychiatrist

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1912

Place of Birth: Lomnice, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 15-Oct-1996

Profession: physician, psychiatrist, university teacher, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Leo Eitinger (12 December 1912 – 15 October 1996) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, author and educator.
He was a Holocaust survivor who studied the late-onset psychological trauma experienced by people who went through separation and psychological pain early in life only to show traumatic experience decades later.
He devoted a long period studying posttraumatic stress disorder among Holocaust survivors, which had led Holocaust survivors including Paul Celan (1920– 1970), Primo Levi (1919–1987) and many others to commit suicide several decades after the experience.