Anton Leischner

Anton Leischner (born May 22, 1908 in Niklasdorf in Silesia ; † September 17, 2010 ) was a German physician and linguist ( patholinguistics ).

Life

After graduating from high school in Freiwaldau in 1926, he studied medicine at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and received his doctorate at the Prague Psychiatric-Neurological Clinic in 1933. The habilitation took place in Prague in 1942 as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry with a thesis on aphasia in the deaf and mute . He then held a lectureship until the German University was dissolved in 1945. After the expulsion he moved to Bonn in 1948 and in 1948 took over the management of the neurological department in the institute for brain injuries in Langenberg . In 1957 he was offered a professorship at the University of Bonn . At that time he was involved in founding the department for clinical brain pathology at the state clinic for brain injured persons in Bonn. In 1969, he became chief medical director at the Rheinische Landesklinik for the speech impaired in Bonn . In 1973 he was one of the founders of the "Working Group for Aphasia Research and Therapy". He retired in 1975 after which he continued to work in research and teaching.

With his founding of the “Rheinische Landesklinik für Sprachverslinik” and his studies based on examinations with many aphasic people, he became one of the main representatives of his field after 1945 when it came to rehabilitation of brain injured persons and speech therapy in general. Since the beginning of his work in the Rhineland, he has involved linguists and speech therapists in his research and therapy developments, especially for aphasia . Leischner is considered to be the founder of clinical linguistics in Germany.

literature

• Thomas Brauer, Anne Aumüller, Jennifer Schwarz: Speech therapy - who is who? People of particular formative importance for speech therapy. Schulz-Kirchner Verlag 2004.
• Wilfried Kürschner : Anton Leischner . In: Linguist's Handbook A – L. Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-8233-5001-3 , pp. 537-538.