Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck

Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck ( born September 28, 1845 in Lier, Drammen, † March 17, 1917 in Kristiania, now Oslo ) was a Norwegian dermatologist. Particularly well known Boeck was the description of sarcoidosis, also known as Boeck's disease (pronounced " Buhk ").

Curriculum vitae

Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck was born in Lier, a suburb of the Norwegian city of Drammen. His father, Caesar Boeck (1807-1884), was a ship's captain, his mother was Elen Holter ( 1819-1884 ). Originally his family came from Flanders, where his grandfather in the 18th century immigrated to Norway in order to be successful in the lumber business.

He grew up in Drammen and completed his education here, graduating in 1864. After that, he began his medical studies in Christiania (now Oslo) and graduated 1871. He then worked sporadically at Rigshospitalet, the city hospital of Christiania, and in 1872 as an epidemiologist in Sarpsborg, where in the year broke a typhus epidemic. He then worked as a general practitioner in the area of ​​the city Brevik.

From 1874 to 1875 traveled Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck Austria, England and France. In Vienna Boeck stayed for seven months, and worked with Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880) in the dermatological institute.

After his return to Norway he first worked as an epidemiologist in Egersund during an outbreak of smallpox in 1878 and went back to the Rikshospitalet as a doctor in the local skin clinic, where his uncle Carl Wilhelm Boeck ( 1808-1875 ) was the chief physician. This he represented it during a brief illness. Besides his work, he devoted some time to the international congresses Dermatology and went from 1885 to 1886 by Germany and France to there new methods of microscopy to learn and study various skin diseases. The main part of this time he spent in Paris.

On September 14, 1882 married Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck Hansine Doxrud. On January 1, 1889, he was chief physician of the Dermatology Clinic at Rikshospitalet and on 30 January 1896 he was appointed associate professor at the Medical Faculty of the University. In 1896 he was promoted to full professor of medicine.

Boeck visited a number of international conferences during his career. So it was in 1880 as one of four vice-presidents on a medical conference in Berlin. Also on the first four international dermatology meetings (Paris 1889, Vienna 1892, London 1896, Paris 1900) he was present. In 1898 he gave the opening speech at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association and in 1902 he was the official representative of the Norwegian government at the international conference in Brussels on " prevention of syphilis and other venereal diseases ."

During his career he received several honorary professorships and was a member, honorary member and a corresponding member in a number of medical associations. On February 4, 1911, he became a Knight of St. Olav Medal ( Ridder av Sankt Olavs Orden ). On October 4, 1912. Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck 1915 emeritus professor of his posts and he died on March 17, 1917, of angina pectoris.

In addition to medicine, Bock was mainly involved with the arts, especially of painting. He was a regular visitor of museums and also used his travels, to look at the collections of other countries. 1917, year of his death, he published the treatise Rembrandt Saskia og i fuller hjem. His art collection he bequeathed to the city Drammen.

Scientific achievements

Cæsar Peter Møller Boeck employed during his entire medical career with many different diseases, especially diseases of the skin. Especially his work on sarcoidosis, also known as Boeck's disease, are important to this day. He described this disease in 1899 for the first time comprehensively, although he has previously written a number of publications on this subject. In 1904 he described the disease a second time on a 36 -year-old police officer who had a change in the skin and lymph nodes.

Other significant contributions were recorded Boeck inter alia, to Hutchinsonschen pupil, the Hutchinsonschen teeth, Mortimer 's disease and meningitis has been described by Van Bogaert.

Together with Mikael Skjelderup (1834-1902) and Fredrik Stabell ( 1832-99 ), he founded the magazine Tidsskrift for praktisk medicine ( 1881-1886 ). He also distinguished himself for a comprehensive work on publications.