Daniel Cornelius Danielssen
Daniel Cornelius Danielssen (4 July 1815 – 13 July 1894) was a Norwegian physician, from Bergen.
He worked with Gerhard Armauer Hansen, discovering the bacteria causing leprosy, and made Bergen a world centre of lepra research in the middle of the nineteenth century. With dermatologist Carl Wilhelm Boeck, he was co-author of an acclaimed study on lepra titled Om Spedalskhed (1847).[1] In October 1849, he was named head physician of the research hospital, Lungegaardshospitalet. In 1859, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow visited Danielssen in Bergen in order to study lepra.
In 1876-78 he served as a zoologist on a Norwegian expedition to northern waters, and for several years was chairman of the Selskabet for de norske Fiskeriers Fremme (Society for the Advancement of Norwegian Fisheries). Also, for a number of years, Danielssen was a representative of Bergen to the Stortinget (the Norwegian parliament), 1862–64, 1871–73 and 1875-76.[1] Danielssen was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.
See also
- Danielssen-Boeck disease
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daniel Cornelius Danielssen biography @ Who Named It
External links
- Who Named It Daniel Cornelius Danielssen biography
- Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) @ Bergen Guide, Bergen Norway
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