August Homburger (1873–1930) was a prominent German child psychiatrist, hailed as a "pioneer" in the field.
[1] He taught as a professor at Heidelberg University, where he was the founder alongside Ernst Moro of the Children's Counselling Centre.
[2] He wrote extensively about Haltlose personality disorder in children.
[3] Leon Eisenburg credited Homburger's 1926 magnum opus "Lectures on the Psychopathology of Childhood" as the first comprehensive source on childhood psychiatry.
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