Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck (28 September 1845 – 17 March 1917) was a Norwegian

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born in

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. He was a nephew to

Carl Wilhelm Boeck Carl Wilhelm Boeck (December 15, 1808 – December 10, 1875) was a Norwegian dermatologist. He was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway. In 1831 he earned his medical degree from the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo). From 183 ...

(1808-1875) and

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Christian Peder Bianco Boeck Christian Peder Bianco Boeck (September 5, 1798 – July 11, 1877) was a Norwegian doctor, zoologist, botanist and mountaineer. He is most associated with his catalog of approved drugs, ''Pharmacopoea Norvegica'' (1854) and with his studies of ...

(1798-1877). In 1871 he graduated from the Christiania (

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) Medical School, and did post-graduate work in

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under Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880). In 1889 he was appointed chief of dermatology at the

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, later becoming an associate professor (1895). A specialist in

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research, Boeck is remembered for describing a

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disease that affects the

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s, as well as other parts of the body. In 1899 he provided a comprehensive description of skin changes along with general lymph node destruction that was associated with the disease. The condition was later named Boeck's sarcoidosis, and is sometimes referred to as "Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease" (named in conjunction with

Ernest Henri Besnier Ernest Henri Besnier (; 21 April 1831 – 15 May 1909, Paris) was a French dermatologist and medical director of the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. He was a native of Honfleur, département Calvados. He studied medicine in Paris, where in 18 ...

and

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). Boeck published his findings of the disorder in an article titled "Multiple benign sarcoid of the skin". Boeck was a fluent speaker of German, English and French, and travelled extensively throughout Europe during his career. He was an aficionado of art, and spent much of his free time in art museums. In 1917 he published a treatise on

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called ''Rembrandt og Saskia i deres hjem'' (Rembrandt and Saskia in their home). In his will he donated his art collection to the

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city museum. He was co-founder of the magazine ''Tidsskrift for praktisk Medicin'' (1881–1886).

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