Leo Kanner (pronounced "Kahner"; June 13, 1894 – April 3, 1981) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism. In 1943, Kanner published a landmark paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact" describing 11 children who were highly intelligent but displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness". He later names their condition "early infantile autism." This is now known as autism. Because of this he is referred as the "father of child psychiatry". He is considered to be one of the most influential American clinical psychiatrists of the 20th century.
His known life and career
Life in Berlin
Kanner was born in 1894 in the small town of Klekotów, Austro-Hungary (nowadays Ukraine). In this area the proportion of people of Jewish descent was about 70% of the total population. His parents were Jewish and he received both a religious as well as a secular education. Kanner spent the first years of his life in Klekotów with his family and was brought up according to Jewish tradition and custom. As a young boy he moved to Berlin in 1906 to live with his uncle. Kanner passed his final examinations from Sophien Gymnasium and decided to go to medical school.
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