Hofer, Johannes

…coined by Swiss medical student Johannes Hofer by blending the Greek words nostos (“return” or “homecoming”) and algos (“pain”). It first appeared in print in 1688 as Dissertatio Medica de Nostalgia, oder Heimweh (“Medical Dissertation on Nostalgia, or Homesickness”), in which Hofer described the feeling as a “cerebral disease” that…