Daniel Cornelius Danielssen
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Daniel Cornelius Danielssen (4 July 1815 – 13 July 1894) was a Norwegian physician. He was most noted for his research regarding the causes and treatment of leprosy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Biography
Danielssen was from Bergen, Norway. Dating from 1839, he was associated with St. Jørgens Hospital (Sankt Jørgens Hospital) in Bergen. He later 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
With dermatologist Carl Wilhelm Boeck, he was co-author of an acclaimed study on lepra titled Om Spedalskhed (1847).<ref name=WN>Daniel Cornelius Danielssen biography Template:Webarchive @ Who Named It</ref> In October 1849, he was named head physician of research at Lungegaard Hospital (Lungegaardshospitalet). In 1859, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow visited Danielssen in Bergen in order to study lepra.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1876–78 he served as a zoologist on a Norwegian expedition to northern waters, and for several years was chairman of the Society for the Advancement of Norwegian Fisheries (Selskabet for de norske Fiskeriers Fremme). Also, for a number of years, Danielssen was a representative of Bergen to the Stortinget, 1862–64, 1871–73 and 1875–76.<ref name=WN/> Danielssen was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The characteristic anesthesia of the extremity affected by untreated leprosy is sometimes called "Danielssen's Sign" in his honor.<ref>Danielssen’s Sign Our Dermatol Online. 2011; 2(3): 158-170</ref>
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- Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) Template:Webarchive @ Bergen Guide, Bergen Norway
Further reading
- Jorgen Brunchorst (1893) D.C. Danielssen: a biographical sketch Bergens Museum