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Carl Looft
1863–1943
A pioneering Norwegian physician and one of the country’s first pediatricians, he also wrote about child development and public health at a time when both fields were still taking shape. His work helped bring closer attention to the medical needs of children in Norway.
1 Audiobook
Leprosy : in its clinical & pathological aspects
by G. Armauer (Gerhard Armauer) Hansen, Carl Looft
About the author
Born in Vestre Bærum in 1863, Carl Looft trained as a physician and built much of his career in Bergen. Early in his medical work, he studied leprosy, but he later became known above all for his work with children’s health.
He is remembered as one of Norway’s first pediatricians and as an early researcher in child health and development. Alongside private practice and hospital work, he published medical studies that helped establish pediatrics as a more serious field of study in Norway.
Looft died in Bergen in 1943. Today he is chiefly remembered not as a literary figure, but as a medical pioneer whose writing and research widened understanding of childhood illness and development.