About Kristian Andvord
Lived 1855 – 1934 (aged 79). Kristian Andvord was a Norwegian physician.
Kristian Feyer Andvord (17 May 185519 May 1934) was a Norwegian physician and medical researcher. He was a pioneer in the study and treatment of tuberculosis.
He was born at Lyngdal Municipality in Lister og Mandal county as a son of parish priest Thorstein Rolfsen Andvord and Sofie Barbara Margrethe Feyer. He was the father of jurist and diplomat Rolf Andvord. He graduated with a degree in medicine in 1882. From 1887 to 1896, he was associated with the Tonsåsen Sanatorium (now Tonsåsen Rehabilitation Centre) at Valdres in Oppland. Andvord conducted a study of the treatment of tuberculosis while at Tonsåsen and published a number of studies starting in 1889. He later moved to Kristiania (now Oslo) and returned to general practition and to work at the Gausdal Sanatorium.
He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1925, and Knight of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star.
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Norwegian physician and medical researcher (1855-1934)
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Kristian Andvord was born on 17 May 1855.
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Kristian Andvord died on 19 May 1934.
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Kristian Andvord was a physician.
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Kristian Andvord was Norwegian.
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