Christian Ingerslev Baastrup

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup ( born January 24, 1885 in Copenhagen, † 1950 ) was a Danish radiologist from Copenhagen, after the disease Baastrup, a process described by him in 1932 back pain, is named.

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup was the son of Christiane Margrethe and the wine merchant Carl Lauritz Baastrup from Ingerslev (municipality Rougsø in the Official Aarhus ). He attended the Borgerdydskolen in Copenhagen and made 1909 at the University of Copenhagen his degree in medicine. After his training in various hospitals and his work as a doctor in the ear, nose and throat medicine and ophthalmology, he was from 1911 to 1913 assistant in the Department of Radiology of the Rigshospitalet. Since 1912, he belonged to the clinic of Professor Lorentzen. He then worked in the Radiology Clinics of Kommunehospitalet and the Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen, where he was chief physician of the x-ray department in 1922 and 1935 senior doctor.

Baastrup participated in a variety of international radiological congresses and was a member of the scientific journal Acta radiologica. He was co-founder in 1919 of the Nordisk Forening for Radiologi in Oslo and initiated a medical history museum, which he bequeathed to one of the largest and most complete collections of historical X-ray equipment. He was a member of the German Roentgen Society and the Société de Membre titulaire Radiology médicale de France.

Baastrup was married to Unni Krog from Bergen ( Norway). He is described as warm-hearted, helpful man, with an innovative spirit in his field. He was a prolific author.