Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian surgeon and professor
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Place of Birth: Hammerfest, Northern Norway, Norway
About Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen
- Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen (30 November 1882 – 13 January 1975) was a Norwegian physician who is regarded a pioneer in the development of surgery in Norway. He was born in Hammerfest, and was married to actress Gerd Egede-Nissen from 1922 to 1940, and to the sister of his first wife, Gøril Havrevold, from 1962.
- He graduated as cand.med.
- in 1907, and worked as a physician in Stavanger from 1908 to 1911.
- He then worked two years at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, where he studied neurosurgery, and further studied bacteriology and histology in Paris.
- He was appointed professor in surgery at the University of Oslo from 1928.
- Among his works is his thesis from 1917/1918, Om nervetransplantation, and Nordisk lærebok i kirurgi (first edition 1920, in cooperation with G.
- Petrén).
- He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St.
- Olav in 1959, and was Knight of the French Legion of Honour and of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.
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