Gustav Aschaffenburg
Gustav Aschaffenburg (May 23, 1866 – September 2, 1944) was a German psychiatrist born in Zweibrücken.
In 1890 he received his medical doctorate from the
University of Halle and at the Akademie für praktische Medizin in Cologne (from 1919 the University of Cologne
).
In the 1930s Aschaffenburg's academic career at
Washington, D.C., and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
.
He wrote about the distinctions between
Haltlose and Gemütlose psychopathy
.
Aschaffenburg was a pioneer in the fields of
Crime and it's Repression (1913).[1] It was also translated into Swedish by Olof Kinberg and Julia Kinberg.[2]
References
- Catalogus-professorum-halensis (translated biography)
- ^ The Free Library Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945.
- JSTOR 1132803.