Kristian Fredrik Grøn (23 October 1855 – 1931) was a Norwegian dermatologist.
He was born in
Kristiania
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as a son of physician Andreas Fredrik Schroeter Grøn (1819–1905) and Maren Birgitte Schroeter. His brother
Andreas Fredrik Grøn and brother-in-law
J. F. O. Semb were also notable physicians.
After
finishing his secondary education in 1872 he graduated from university with the
cand.med.
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degree in 1880. Working in Kristiania, he took the
dr.med.
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degree in 1898 with a thesis on
tertiary syphilis
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and settled as chief physician at
Ullevål Hospital
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in 1903.
[ With Carl Rasch from Denmark and Edvard Welander from Sweden he formed the Nordic Dermatology Association in Copenhagen in 1910. He died in 1931.][''Dagbladet'' 18 August 1931]
References
Norwegian dermatologists
1855 births
1931 deaths
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