Harald Astrup Salvesen (7 January 1889, in

Larvik Larvik () is a List of cities in Norway, town and Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Larvik. The municipality ...

– 22 January 1972)DIS Gravminner was a Norwegian medical doctor and internist, a professor at

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. His publications were mainly in the field of

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. He was married to

Sylvia Salvesen Sylvia Salvesen (25 January 1890 – 1973) was a member of the high society in Norway, and a resistance pioneer during World War II. She was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. She witnessed at the Hamburg Rave ...

. He was decorated Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 1957.

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