Johannes Larsen Flatla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian veterinarian
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Place of Birth: Lunner, Oppland, Norway
About Johannes Larsen Flatla
- Johannes Larsen Flatla (11 January 1906 – 1973) was a Norwegian veterinarian. He was born in Lunner as a son of farmer Lars Flatla (1860–1938) and Kari Horgen (1859–1930).
- He finished his secondary education in 1925, and graduated from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in 1931.
- He worked as a veterinarian in Lunner before being hired as an associate professor of pathology at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in 1937.
- He was a professor there from 1947 to 1968, and then director of the National Veterinary Institute from 1968 to his death.He was also a guest scholar/lecturer at the Norwegian College of Agriculture, in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Cambridge, and a member of the research council NLVF from 1949 to 1959.
- He was a central board member of the Norwegian Veterinary Association from 1939 and acting secretary-general in the summer of 1945, after World War II.
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