Arent Greve de Besche (4 December 1878 – 16 September 1945) was a Norwegian bacteriologist. He was born in

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as a son of Oscar de Besche (1846–1909) and Anna Sophie Løberg. His father owned the newspaper ''

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'', so did his grandfather

Johan Gerhard de Besche Johan Gerhard de Besche (31 May 1821 – 19 February 1875) was a Norwegian physician and owner the ''Morgenbladet'' newspaper. He was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. He was a son of Joachim Christopher de Besche and Elizabeth Birgitte Berg ...

. The family had migrated to Sweden from the Netherlands in the 16th century, and one branch from there to Norway in the 17th century. He finished his secondary education in 1896, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1904. He worked as a hospital assistant from 1906 to 1912, except for half a year in 1908 when he studied in

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(under

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and

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) and Belitz. In 1912 he was appointed as an

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, and the next year he took the

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degree on the thesis ''Bakteriologiske studier over barnetuberkulose''. He later published mostly in German and US journals. In 1920 he became lecturer of medicinal bacteriology at the

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. In June 1914 in

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he married Anita Iversen, born in Spain to a

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. He died in 1945.

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1878 births 1945 deaths Norwegian bacteriologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Oslo University Hospital people Physicians from Oslo {{Norway-academic-bio-stub