Hans Asperger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Asperger

Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1906

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1980

Profession: physician, professor, psychiatrist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Johann "Hans" Friedrich Karl Asperger (, German: [hans '?asp???g?]; 18 February 1906 – 21 October 1980) was an Austrian pediatrician, eugenicist, medical theorist, and medical professor.
He is best known for his early studies on mental disorders, specifically in children.
His work was largely unnoticed during his lifetime except for a few accolades in Vienna, and his studies on psychological disorders acquired world renown only posthumously.
He wrote over 300 publications, mostly concerning a condition he termed autistic psychopathy (AP). There was a resurgence of interest in his work beginning in the 1980s, and due to his earlier work on autism spectrum disorders, Asperger syndrome (AS), was named after him.
Both Asperger's original pediatric diagnosis of AP and the eponymous diagnosis of AS that was named after him several decades later have been controversial.
He was involved highly in the Nazi regime and was appointed to his high position over other Jewish doctors and because he was against the Jewish people.
The controversy has intensified since revelations that, during the Nazi years, Asperger sent at least two disabled children to the Am Spiegelgrund clinic, knowing they would be the subject of cruel experiments and likely euthanised under the Nazi programme named, post-bellum, "Aktion T4".