August Homburger (1873–1930) was a prominent German child psychiatrist, hailed as a "pioneer" in the field.
He taught as a professor at Heidelberg University, where he was the founder alongside Ernst Moro of the Children's Counselling Centre. He wrote extensively about the haltlose personality disorder in children.Homburger, August. "Vorlesungen über Psychopathologie des Kindesalters". Berlin 1926. Pgs 304-324
Leon Eisenburg credited Homburger's 1926 magnum opus "Lectures on the Psychopathology of Childhood" as the first comprehensive source on childhood psychiatry. The Past 50 Years of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir, LEON EISENBERG, M.D.
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