Thomas Andreas Finn Schram (9 October 1882 – 15 July 1950) was a Norwegian physician, best known for his endeavor against

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Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of wholesaler Thomas Andreas Schram (1835–1890) and Mathilde Just (1850–1901). He was a brother of businessperson Jacob Schram and art historian Irma Schram, and thus a brother-in-law of

Mads Gram Harald Mathias "Mads" Gram (6 February 1875 – 1929) was a Norwegian physician. Personal life He was born in Drammen as the son of Jens Gram. He was a brother of Johan Fredrik Gram, a maternal grandson of P. A. Munch and a paternal great-grandson ...

. Another sister Elisabeth was married to

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, a brother of Mads Gram. In 1912 he married writer Constance Wiel Nygaard (1890–1955), a daughter of book publisher

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and sister of book publisher

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Career

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his secondary education in 1901 and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the

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degree in 1909. He was a candidate at

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from 1910 to 1911, then moved to Western Norway as assisting physician at Lyster Sanatorium. Before the end of the year 1912 he became municipal physician in

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and

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. From 1914 to 1915 he studied under Brauer in Eppendorf and

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. In 1916 he became reserve physician at Landeskogen Sanatorium, the first state sanatorium for

. He went on to the tuberculosis department of Kristiania Health Council in 1918, then became chief physician at Vensmoen Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1921 and Ringvål Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1935. He retired in 1947. He became a board member of ''Den norske nationalforening mot tuberkulose'' in 1922 and the specialist board in the

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in 1932. He later chaired ''Norske Lægers Tuberkuloseselskap'' from 1945, having served as a board member since 1935. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

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in 1947. Schram, who lived in

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in his later life, died in

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in July 1950 and was buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schram, Thomas 1882 births 1950 deaths University of Oslo alumni Norwegian expatriates in Germany Norwegian pulmonologists Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour