Biography of Hans Asperger

Hans Asperger (February 18, 1906 – October 21, 1980) was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named.

Life

Born on a farm outside Vienna, Asperger displayed an early talent for languages. He was a member in the youth movements of the 1920s. He studied medicine in Vienna and earned his medical doctorate in 1931, and found his first job a year later as a member of the University Children’s Hospital in Vienna. In 1934, his career developed with a move to the psychiatric hospital in Leipzig.

It is not certain what Asperger did during the early years of World War II. In the later years of the war he was a medical officer in Croatia; his younger brother died in Stalingrad.[1] In 1944, after the publication of his landmark paper describing autistic symptoms, he found a permanent tenured post at the University of Vienna. Shortly after the war ended, he became director of a children’s clinic in the city. He was appointed Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Vienna, a post he held for 20 years. He also later held a post at Innsbruck. Then, beginning in 1964, he headed the SOS-Kinderdorf in Hinterbrühl. During his life, he published over 300 papers, the two major topics being “autistic psychopathy” and “death”.[1]

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