Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adolph Carl Peter Callisen

Danish physician

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1786

Place of Birth: Glückstadt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1866

Profession: physician, university teacher

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Adolph Carl Peter Callisen (8 April 1786 in Glückstadt – 7 March 1866 in Wandsbek) was a German-Danish physician and lexicographer. He studied medicine at the universities of Kiel and Copenhagen, 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.