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The first account of the syndrome Asperger described?

Translation of a paper entitled “Die schizoiden Psychopathien im Kindesalter by Dr. G. E. Ssucharewa; scientific assistant, which appeared in 1926 in the Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie 60:235–261

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Wolff, S. The first account of the syndrome Asperger described?. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 5, 119–132 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571671

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