Grunya Sukhareva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grunya Sukhareva

Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university teacher

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of Death: 26-Apr-1981

Profession: psychiatrist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva (????? ???????? ????????, ['grun?? j?'f?im?vn? 'sux?r??v?], alternative transliteration Suchareva) (November 11, 1891 – April 26, 1981) was a Soviet child psychiatrist.
She was the first to publish a detailed description of autistic symptoms in 1925.
The original paper was in Russian and published in German a year later.
Sula Wolff translated it in 1996 for the English-speaking world.She initially used the term "schizoid psychopathy", "schizoid" meaning "eccentric" at the time, but later replaced it with "autistic (pathological avoidant) psychopathy" to describe the clinical picture of autism.
The article was created almost two decades before the case reports of Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner, which were published while Sukhareva's pioneering work remained unnoticed.
This is possibly because of various political and language barriers at the time.
Her name was transliterated as "Ssucharewa" when her papers appeared in Germany, and the autism researcher Hans Asperger likely chose not to cite her work, due to his affiliation with the Nazi Party and her Jewish heritage.