Daniel Cornelius Danielssen

Daniel Cornelius Danielssen
Title page of 'Om Spedalskhed'

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.

The characteristic anesthesia of the extremity affected by untreated Leprosy is sometimes called as the "Danielssen's Sign" in his honor.

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References

  1. 1 2 Daniel Cornelius Danielssen biography @ Who Named It


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