Kristian Fredrik Grøn
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Kristian Fredrik Grøn (23 October 1855 – 1931) was a Norwegian dermatologist. He was born in
Kristiania Oslo ( or ; ) 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 1,064,235 in 2022, an ...
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. degree in 1880. In 1874 he met
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while both were working in Kristiania (Today
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). He took the dr.med. degree in 1898 with a thesis on
tertiary syphilis Syphilis () is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium ''Treponema pallidum'' subspecies ''pallidum''. The signs and symptoms depend on the stage it presents: primary, secondary, latent or tertiary. The primary stage classi ...
and settled as chief physician at Ullevål Hospital 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


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Norwegian dermatologists 1855 births 1931 deaths {{Norway-academic-bio-stub