The Royal Danish Academy of Surgery (

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: Det Kongelige Kirurgiske Akademi), or Academia Chirurgorum Regia, was an educational institution which existed from 1785 until 1842 in

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. Its former building at

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now houses Medical Museion,

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's museum of medicine.

History

The Academy of Surgery was founded on 22 June 1785 as a replacement for the

Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum was an anatomical theatre which existed from 1736 until 1785 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built as a replacement for Domus Anatomica which had been destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 and was itself succeeded ...

from 1736. Queen Dowager Juliane Marie donated a lot in Bredgade, near Frederiks Hospital, and a building for the new institution was completed in 1787 to a design by Peter Meyn. The first president of the Academy was Alexander Kølpin (1731–1801). The Academy of Surgery merged with the Faculty of Medicine at the

on 1 January 1842. The building remained in use for dissections and lectures on surgery. It now houses Medical Museion, the University's museum of medicine.

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History

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