Kristian Schreiner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian anthropologist
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Place of Birth: Ekeberg, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Kristian Schreiner
- Kristian Schreiner (July 29, 1874 – May 3, 1957) was a Norwegian professor of medicine. He was born in Ekeberg as a son of wholesaler Christian Emil Schreiner (1829–1879) and Bethy Gerhardine Bødtker (1832–1910).
- He was a relative of educator Emil Schreiner.
- In September 1900 he married Alette Falch.
- They had a son Johan Schreiner, and through another son Fredrik Schreiner they had the grandson Per Schreiner.He took his examen artium in 1892 and graduated with the cand.med.
- degree in 1899.
- He then studied histology, embryology and cytology for one year in Würzburg, one year in Prague and half a year in Liège.
- He took the dr.med.
- degree already in 1902 with the German-language thesis Ãœber die Entwicklung der Amniotennier.
- He became a research fellow at the Royal Frederick University in 1904, and was promoted to prosector in 1906 and professor in 1908.
- He conducted research together with his wife, and they released textbooks on the human organism for university students in three volumes between 1918 and 1921, and a textbook for school students in 1923.Schreiner later became more involved in physical anthropology.
- In 1929 he released the work Die Somatologie der Norweger nach Untersuchungen an Rekruten together with Halfdan Bryn.
- However Schreiner did not delve into racial hygiene.
- He was fired by the Nazi occupants of Norway, and was also imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from September 12, 1941 to July 3, 1942, because of "resistance to a German decree".
- His son Johan was imprisoned too.
- After the end of the occupation, Schreiner rounded off his career as professor from spring to autumn 1945.
- His last book of importance came in 1946: the second volume of Crania Norvegica, the first volume of which came in 1939.
- He died in May 1957 in Oslo.
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| Alternative names | E. Munch; Edvard Munk; Edward Munch; Munch; eduard munch; edv. munch; edward munch | ||
| Description | Norwegian painter and graphic artist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 12 December 1863 / 1863 | 23 January 1944 | |
| Location of birth/death | Løten (Norway) | Ekely (Norway) | |
| Work period | 1883–1944 | ||
| Work location | Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Lübeck, Nice, Ekely, Kragerø | ||
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