Karl Aimo "Kalle" Achté (12 September 1928 – 30 January 2019) was a Finnish psychiatrist. He was a physician and psychiatrist at

Helsinki University Central Hospital Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH; fi, Helsingin seudun yliopistollinen keskussairaala; sv, Helsingfors universitets centralsjukhus) is a hospital network in Finland. It is one of the largest hospitals in Europe. It encompasses 17 hospi ...

from 1956 to 1961 and Hesperia Hospital 1961 to 1966, taking his doctoral degree in 1961. From 1968 to 1991 he was a professor of psychiatry at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

and concurrently chief physician at the Helsinki University Central Hospital. He also served as

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of the Faculty of Medicine from 1978 to 1981. He was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

from 1989. He died in 2019.

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1928 births 2019 deaths Finnish psychiatrists Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{Finland-academic-bio-stub