Gustav Aschaffenburg

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Gustav Aschaffenburg (1866-1944)

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

.

He wrote about the distinctions between

.

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

  1. ^ The Free Library Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology, 1880-1945.
  2. JSTOR 1132803
    .