Henrik Dedichen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Modum, Buskerud, Norway
About Henrik Dedichen
- Henrik Arnold Thaulow Dedichen (23 March 1863 – 3 March 1935) was a Norwegian psychiatrist.
- He was born in Modum.
- He was a great-grandson of Niels Andreas Vibe and grandson of Heinrich Arnold Thaulow.
- He was the father of children's writer Aimée Sommerfelt, and an uncle of Hans Heiberg.He established a private psychiatric hospital at Trosterud in Østre Aker in 1911, which he managed until 1933.
- He started and edited the journal Tidsskrift for nordisk retsmedicin og psykiatri from 1901 to 1911, and wrote several books on psychiatric subjects.
- He was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 1895, and was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in gold in 1926.
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