Though Hofer is credited with naming nostalgia, it existed prior to that. During the Thirty Years War, at least six soldiers were discharged from the Spanish Army of Flanders with el mal de corazón.

The term nostalgia was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer, a Swiss physician who named the ailment tied to homesickness he found in Swiss mercenary soldiers. Nost means “homecoming” and algia ...

Hofer thought of nostalgia as “a cerebral disease”. He listed its symptoms as obsessive thinking of home, weeping, anxiety, ...

Over 300 years ago, Swiss physician Johannes Hofer observed disturbing behaviors among Swiss mercenaries fighting in far-flung lands. The soldiers were prone to anorexia, despondency and bouts of ...

Unironically cool cassette tapes. Laura Balbarde There’s an irony to nostalgia. Coined by Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer in 1688, nostalgia was once a medical diagnosis.However, nostalgia has since ...

Nostalgia is this bittersweet — yet positive emotion — we feel when we harken back in time. Though when Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer coined the term in 1688, it was anything but positive.

Most accounts trace the word’s origin to 1688, when Johannes Hofer used it in his medical dissertation to describe an affliction affecting Swiss ... While nostalgia was once a cause for ...

In 1688, Swiss physician Johannes Hofer coined the portmanteau in his dissertation to refer to "the pain a sick person feels because he is not in his native land, or fears never to see it again." ...

Tracing the term "nostalgia" back to its coinage by a 17th century medical student, Johannes Hofer, to describe a crippling brain disorder afflicting Swiss mercenary soldiers and other wanderers ...