Christian Magnus Falsen Sinding-Larsen (17 April 1866 – 12 February 1930) was a Norwegian physician and hospital director.

Personal life

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 jurist and writer

Alfred Sinding-Larsen Nils Ulrik Alfred Sinding-Larsen (5 June 1839 – 28 January 1911) was a Norwegian civil servant, teacher at the Military Academy, journalist and writer. Personal life He was born in Fredrikstad as a son of physician (1808–1876) and Frederikke ...

(1839–1911) and Elisabeth Lange (1841–1887). He was a brother of colonel Birger Fredrik Sinding-Larsen, architect

Holger Sinding-Larsen Peter Andreas Holger Sinding-Larsen (5 July 1869 – 12 December 1938) was a Norway, Norwegian architecture, architect. He is most associated with his work at Akershus Fortress, where he was a member of the restoration committee and architect ...

and painter

Kristofer Sinding-Larsen Kristofer Andreas Lange Sinding-Larsen (3 April 1873 – 26 December 1948) was a Norwegian painter. Personal life He was born in Kristiania as a son of jurist and writer Alfred Sinding-Larsen (1839–1911) and Elisabeth Lange (1841–1887). He w ...

, and also a grandnephew of mining engineer Matthias Wilhelm Sinding, second cousin of painter

Sigmund Sinding In Germanic mythology, Sigmund ( , ) is a hero whose story is told in the Völsunga saga. He and his sister, Signý, are the children of Völsung and his wife Hljod. Sigmund is best known as the father of Sigurð the dragon-slayer, though Sigur� ...

, maternal great-grandson of founding father

Christian Magnus Falsen Christian Magnus Falsen (14 September 1782 – 13 January 1830) was a Norwegian statesman, jurist and historian. He was a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly and was one of the writers of the constitution of Norway. Falsen has been name ...

and nephew of

Balthazar Lange Balthazar Conrad Lange (25 March 1854 - 13 September 1937) was a Norwegian architect. Personal life He was born in Asker as a son of customs treasurer and lieutenant colonel Christopher Andreas Lange (1808–1888) and Anne Birgithe Falsen. He ...

. In April 1897 in Kristiania he married Lilla Kildal (born 1875), daughter of Birger Kildal. He was an uncle of architect Knut Martens Sinding-Larsen, architect Kirsten Sinding-Larsen and journalist Henning Sinding-Larsen.

Career

He finished his secondary education in 1855, then graduated with the cand.med. degree in medicine in 1891. He worked one year at

Rikshospitalet Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway. It was an independent hospital, ''Rigshospitalet'', later spelled ''Rikshospitalet'' ("The National Hospital"), from 1826 to 20 ...

, and in 1892 he was hired at Kysthospitalet in

Fredriksvern Fredriksvern (also called ''Friderichsværn'' (1801), ''Frederiksværn'' (1865), ''Fredriksværen'' (1900) and abbreviated ''Frsværn'') was an important Norwegian naval base, just south of Larvik in Vestfold. It is named after Fredrik V Denmark ...

. In 1907 he took the

dr.med. Doctor Medicinae, also spelled Doctor Medicinæ and abbreviated Dr. Med., is a higher doctorate, doctoral degree (a research doctorate) in medicine awarded by universities in Denmark and formerly in Norway. It is officially translated as Doctor ...

degree with the German-language thesis ''Beitrag zum Studium der Behandlung der Hüftgelenktuberkulose im Kindesalter''. In 1911 he was appointed as director of Rikshospitalet. He continued his research and publication, especially on

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

of the joints. He was also responsible for building and expansion projects at the hospital. He was vice president of the

Norwegian Red Cross The Norwegian Red Cross (''Norges Røde Kors'') was founded on 22 September 1865 by prime minister Frederik Stang. In 1895 the Norwegian Red Cross began educating nurses, and in 1907 the Norwegian Ministry of Defence authorized the organization ...

from 1917 to 1922. In 1926 he released a 100th-year-anniversary history of Rikshospitalet, entitled ''Rikshospitalets første hundrede aar''. He died in 1930 from

heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to Cardiac cycle, fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF ...

during a debate in the

Norwegian Medical Society The Norwegian Medical Society (, ) is a medical organisation in Norway. It has its roots in an informal group created in 1826, which subscribed to and shared foreign medical journals. In 1833 it was formally inaugurated as ''Lægeforeningen i Ch ...

. A bust of him was made by Trygve Thorsen and raised outside the main gate of Rikshospitalet. The hospital was moved to another location in 2000.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sinding-Larsen, Christian Magnus 1866 births 1930 deaths Physicians from Oslo Directors of hospitals of Norway