Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram (6 February 1875 – 1929) was a Norwegian physician.

Personal life

He was born in

Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village ...

as the son of

Jens Gram Jens Gram (15 November 1840 – 22 January 1912) was a Norwegian industrialist. Personal life He was born in Ask as a son of Johan Georg Boll Gram and Fredrikke Severine Mathea Stabell. He was a brother of Andrea Gram, grandson of Jens Jensen G ...

. He was a brother of

Johan Fredrik Gram Johan Fredrik Gram (14 April 1868 – 27 December 1947) was a Norwegian chemist. Personal life He was born in Drammen as a son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Mads Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson of Jens J ...

, a maternal grandson of

P. A. Munch Peter Andreas Munch (15 December 1810 – 25 May 1863), usually known as P. A. Munch, was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway. Munch's scholarship included Norwegian archaeology, geography, ethnography, ...

and a paternal great-grandson of

Jens Jensen Gram Jens Jensen Gram (12 February 1779 – 2 November 1824) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was born in Copenhagen as the son of Jens Gram. He studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1798, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 180 ...

, a nephew of Andrea Gram and a first cousin of

Harald Gram Harald Gram (18 September 1887 – 7 June 1961) was a Norwegian jurist, politician and genealogist. He was secretary general for the Conservative Party of Norway for 22 years, deputy mayor of Aker, Norway, Aker, member of parliament of Norway, P ...

. His aunt Nicoline was married to

Eilif Peterssen Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. Biography Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Osl ...

. In September 1907 he married Irma Ingertha Schram, a well-known art historian. She was the younger sister of his brother Johan's wife Elisabeth. Mads and Irma's son Peder "Per" Gram, who became a barrister, married alpine skier Johanne "Hannemor" Dybwad; they had the daughter

Kari Garmann Kari Garmann (née Gram; born 16 June 1945) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. She was born in Oslo as a daughter of barrister Peder "Per" Gram and alpine skier Johanne "Hannemor" Gram, née Dybwad. Her paternal grandparents ...

Career

He finished his secondary education in 1892, and graduated with the

cand.med. Candidate of Medicine ( la, candidatus medicinae (male), ''candidata medicinae'' (female), abbreviated cand. med.) is an academic degree awarded in Denmark, Iceland, and Norway following a six-year medical school education. Medical students in ...

degree in 1900. In 1902 and 1903 he studied

bacteriology Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classificat ...

at the

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and the

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. He worked in

Kristiania Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

from 1903. From July 1915 he was a lecturer at the University of Kristiania, and in December 1918 he was appointed as director of the Norwegian Directorate for Medicine. He succeeded Michael Holmboe. He travelled extensively abroad during this period, cooperating with foreign and international bodies. In August 1927 he was hired as the

city physician City physician (German: ; , , from Latin ) was a historical title in the Late Middle Ages for a physician appointed by the city council. The city physician was responsible for the health of the population, particularly the poor, and the sanitary ...

() of Kristiania. He died in 1929.

References

1875 births 1929 deaths Norwegian municipal physicians Norwegian bacteriologists Academic staff of the University of Oslo Directors of government agencies of Norway People from Drammen {{Norway-academic-bio-stub