Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck
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Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck (September 28, 1845 - March 17, 1917) was a Norwegian dermatologist who was a native of Lier, Norway. In 1871 he graduated from the Christiania (Oslo) Medical School, and did post-graduate work in Vienna under Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880). In 1889 he became chief of dermatology at the Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, and in 1895 a university professor. He was a nephew to dermatologist Carl Wilhelm Boeck (1808-1875) and zoologist Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (1798-1877).
Cæsar Boeck is remembered for his description and histological research of a granulomatous disease that affects the lymph nodes, as well as other parts of the body. In 1899 Boeck provided a comprehensive description of skin changes along with general lymph node destruction that are associated with the disease. This condition was later called Boeck's sarcoidosis, and sometimes "Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease" (named in conjunction with Ernest Henri Besnier and Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann). Boeck published his findings in an article titled Multiple benign sarcoid of the skin. He was also co-founder of the magazine Tidsskrift for praktisk Medicin (1881–1886).
Boeck was a fluent speaker of German, English and French, and travelled extensively throughout Europe during his career. He was an afficianado of art, and spent much of his free time in art museums. In 1917 he published a treatise on Rembrandt called Rembrandt og Saskia i deres hjem (Rembrandt and Saskia in their home), and in his will he donated his art collection to the Drammen city museum.
