Oswald_Berkhan
Oswald Berkhan
German physician (1834–1917)
Oswald Berkhan (19 March 1834 – 15 February 1917) was a German physician.
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Born in Blankenburg am Harz, he was one of the initiators of the "Idioten-Anstalt Neuerkerode" (institution for people with mental illnesses), which was thought to be a sanctuary for disabled and ill people. He was also a dedicated reformer of special education schools.[citation needed]
He was the first person to identify dyslexia, in 1881,[1] though the term "dyslexia" was coined several years later (in 1887) by Rudolf Berlin, who was an ophthalmologist in Stuttgart.[2]
Berkhan died in Braunschweig.