Berthold Grünfeld
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Berthold Grünfeld (born January 22, 1932 in Bratislava what was then Czechoslovakia) is a Norwegian physician, specialised in psychiatry, and formerly a professor in social medicine at University of Oslo. He is often used as an expert in forensic psychiatry.
[edit] Biography
In 1939 seven year old Berthold Grünfeld had to leave his mother, who he never saw again, in Bratislava in Czechoslovakia. Together with 34 other Jewish children, brought by the charitable organisations Nansen-Hjelpen and Kvinneligaen for fred og frihet, he came to Norway through Berlin by train.
Norway was later occupated by Germany. In 1942 Grünfeld had to escape again, this time to the neutral Sweden, where he stayed until the German forces surrendered. As a fourteen year old boy in 1946, he came to the Jewish orphanage in Oslo.
In 2005, his daughter Nina Grünfeld made a film, Origin Unknown, about her father's biological parentage--about which he neither knew nor was curious--in which she discovered that his mother had been a prostitute.
Berthold Grünfeld finished his medical degree 1960, Ph.D. in medicine in 1973. He became a professor in social medicine in 1993 at the University of Oslo. He is a specialist in psychiatry. He has been a special physician for relationship problems and sexology for Oslo Helseråd.
His doctorate about women and abortion in Norway was finished in 1973 and had an influence toward the laws made for abortion in Norway.
Berthold Grünfeld met his wife Gunhild in 1960. Together they have three children and six grandchildren.
Grünfeld is also a proponent of euthanasia.
[edit] Awards and decorations
- Commander of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav
