Anders Daae (physician)
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Personal life
He was born in FjeldFjell
Fjell is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. The parish of Fjæld was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...
a son of vicar Jens Kobro Daae and his wife Nicoline Friis Daae. His mother was his father's first cousin, as well as a sister of historian and politician Ludvig Kristensen Daa
Ludvig Kristensen Daa
Ludvig Kristensen Daa was a Norwegian historian, ethnologist, auditor, editor of magazines and newspapers, educator and politician....
. Anders Daae was also a nephew of priest and politician Claus Nils Holtzrod Daae, and a second cousin of customs inspector Iver Munthe Daae, prison director Anders Daae, jurist and politician Ludvig Daae, historian Ludvig Daae
Ludvig Daae
Ludvig Daae was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was the Norwegian Minister of the Army from 1884 to 1885....
and Suzannah Daae Ibsen
Suzannah Ibsen
Suzannah Ibsen was the wife of playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen.-Biography:Suzannah Daae Thoresen was born in Herøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Her parents were Hans Conrad Thoresen and his second wife, Sara Margrethe Daae...
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In May 1890 in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
he married Ragnhild Blegen.
Career
Daae finished his secondary education in SkienSkien
' is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county....
in 1869, and took the cand.med.
Cand.med.
Candidate of Medicine , Candidata Medicinae , abbreviated Cand. Med.) is an academic degree awarded in Denmark, Iceland and Norway following a six-year medical school education....
degree in 1878. He was a board member of the Norwegian Students' Society, and in 1876 and 1878 he chaired the students' society Medicinerforeningen. He worked at Rikshospitalet
Rikshospitalet
Rikshospitalet is located in Oslo, Norway. From January 1, 2009, the hospital is part of Oslo University Hospital....
from 1878 to 1879, Gaustad Hospital
Gaustad Hospital
Gaustad Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located at Gaustad in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1855, it is part of Aker University Hospital. Since 1 January 2009, Aker University Hospital has been part of Oslo University Hospital, a subsidiary of the Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority....
from 1879 to 1880 and at Eidsvold Bad in 1880. From 1880 to 1884 and 1885 to his death he worked in Chicago. He was a member of the Chicago Medical Society and the Scandinavian Medical Society in Chicago. In addition to being a physician, he worked as a correspondent for Aftenposten
Aftenposten
Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...
. He headed several fundraisers when disasters, such as the Ålesund Fire
Ålesund Fire
The Ålesund Fire happened in the Norwegian city of Ålesund on 23 January 1904. It destroyed almost the whole city centre, built mostly of wood like the majority of Norwegian towns in that era.-Fire:...
, occurred in Norway or Sweden.
He was decorated as a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in October 1906. He died in June 1924 in Chicago of diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced...
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