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 Buskerud county, 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 villages such ...
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 of
Jens Jensen Gram, a nephew of
Andrea Gram and a first cousin of
Harald Gram. 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. He gained early recognition for the history painting ''Christian II signing t ...
.
In September 1907 he married
Irma Ingertha Schram,
[ a well-known art historian.]
Career
He finished his secondary education in 1892, and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1900. In 1902 and 1903 he studied bacteriology
Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the Morphology (biology), morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of microbiology involves the iden ...
at the University of Giessen
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and the Pasteur Institute
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. He worked in Kristiania
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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.]city physician
City physician (German language, 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, ...
() 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
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