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Place of Birth: Christiania, Norway
About Dagny Bang
- Dagny Kristine Bang (8 June 1868 – 11 August 1944) was a Norwegian physician and politician for the Liberal Party.
- She was among the first physicians in Norway, and was also a proponent for women's rights.She was born in Christiania as a daughter of shipmaster Kristian Andersen og Karoline Larsen, but was adopted together with her sister by professor Cathrinus Bang (1822–1898).
- In July 1901 she married teacher Ivar Andreas Refsdal (1872–1937), a son of politician Anfin Larsen Refsdal.She took her examen artium at Ragna Nielsen School in 1888, enrolled in medicine studies at the Royal Frederick University and graduated with the cand.med.
- degree in 1896.
- Bang was the sixth women to graduate in medicine in Norway.
- She was a medical candidate at Rikshospitalet before starting a private clinic in 1897.
- She was also physician at Vaterland Primary School from 1899 to 1933.
- She continued her studies, in gynecology and dermatology with several study trips abroad, and was a certified specialist in the latter subject from 1912.Bang was a board member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage from 1898 to 1902 and the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1908 to 1910.
- After the 1907 Norwegian local elections she served two terms as a deputy member of Kristiania city council.
- She was a co-founder and board member of the Kristiania Liberal Party Women's League.
- Together with Louise Isachsen and Kristine Munch, among others, she was a co-founder of the Medical Women's Association in 1921, an organization she later chaired for four years.
- In 1935 she founded the Norwegian branch of Open Door International.Bang was eventually struck with cancer.
- She underwent treatment, among others at the Karolinska Hospital in Solna, where she died in August 1944.
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