Daniel Cornelius Danielssen

Daniel Cornelius Danielssen (July 4, 1815 – July 13, 1894) was a Norwegian physician, from Bergen. He worked with Gerhard Armauer Hansen, discovering the bacteria causing leprosy, and made Bergen a world centre of lepra research in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Danielssen was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1877.

[edit] See also

• Danielssen-Boeck disease

[edit] External links

• Daniel Cornelius Danielssen biography

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