Christian Magnus Sinding-Larsen

Christian Magnus Sinding -Larsen Falsen ( born April 17, 1866 in Christiania, now Oslo, † February 12, 1930 in Oslo) was a Norwegian doctor. He is the first to describe the Larsen - Johansson disease ( Crohn's Sinding -Larsen - Johansson ).

Life and work

He was the son of the journalist Alfred Sinding -Larsen (1839-1911) and Elisabeth Lange ( 1842-1887 ). His brothers were the officer Birger Fredrik Sinding -Larsen (1867-1941), architect Holger Sinding -Larsen (1869-1938) and the painter Kristofer Sinding -Larsen ( 1873-1948 ). The journalist Henning Sinding -Larsen (1904-1994) was his nephew.

Sinding -Larsen received his medical degree in 1891 in Oslo, and then worked as an assistant doctor in the Rikshospitalet in Oslo. In 1892 he became assistant physician and later a senior physician in Kysthospitalet in Stavern. In 1907 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the tuberculous coxitis. In 1911 he was appointed director of Rikshospitalet. He held until his death in 1930 this position.

From 1917 to 1922 he was Vice President of the Norwegian Red Cross ( Norges Røde Kors ).

Sinding -Larsen described in 1921 later named after him and the Swedish doctor Sven Johansson Christian Larsen - Johansson disease, aseptic osteochondrosis of the kneecap ( patella). His clinical and research interest was especially true of tuberculosis in childhood and their treatment.