Adolph Carl Peter Callisen (8 April 1786 in

Glückstadt Glückstadt (; da, Lykstad) is a town in the Steinburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is located on the right bank of the Lower Elbe at the confluence of the small Rhin river, about northwest of Altona, Hamburg, Altona. Glückstad ...

– 7 March 1866 in

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) was a German-Danish physician and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...

. He studied medicine at the universities of

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and

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, receiving his doctorate in 1809. In 1816 he was named an associate professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery in Copenhagen, where in 1829 he attained a full professorship. In 1842 he became a professor at the University of Copenhagen because of a merger with the surgical academy. From 1830 to 1845 he published a 33 volume lexicon of medical professionals, titled ''Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon der jetzt lebenden Aerzte, Wundärzte, Geburtshelfer, Apotheker und Naturforscher aller gebildeten Völker'' ("Medical writer lexicon of now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all civilized nations"). He also published a German translation of a surgical manual (''System der neueren Chirurgie'', 1822–24) written by his uncle, Heinrich Callisen (1740–1824), in Latin.Most widely held works by Adolph Carl Peter Callisen
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Callisen, Adolph Carl Peter 1786 births 1866 deaths People from Glückstadt University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen University of Kiel alumni Danish lexicographers 19th-century Danish physicians 19th-century lexicographers