The Bergen Museum, the city of Bergen itself, and Norwegian 

 science — natural and medical — have all, this year, by the 

 death of doctor D. C. Danielssen, sustained a very severe loss, 

 which cannot be easily replaced. 



If the Bergen Museum is now an institution, of which any 

 country might be proud, it is due in the first instance to Danielssen. 

 If Bergen is at the present day something more than a flourishing 

 business town, it may to a large extent thank Danielssen for it, 

 who by his indefatigable energy, in the most various directions, 

 during many years, has raised it to its present standing. 



In the scientific records of this century, his name must be 

 inscribed, as that of one of the most active and conspicuous amongst 

 our countrymen. 



Few men in our land have had his power and will to advance 

 the intellectual life of the town, with which he was connected, during 

 a long life of ceaseless actirity. 



.Few men in our country have laboured in such an energetic 

 and disinterested manner, as he has done, in the service of Science. 

 Although his age announced to us, that his career must soon draw 

 to a close, still when the end came, his loss left a blank, which 

 cannot be easily filled up. 



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Daniel Oornelius Danielssen, son of the watchmaker Danielssen, 

 was born in Bergen on the 4th of July 1815. From a financial 

 point of view, the home prospects were not very brilliant, and when 

 Danielssen was thirteen years old he was obliged to apprentice 

 himself to an apothecary, with a view to become a chemist. But 

 after four years he was obliged to give up this plan, on account of 

 inflammation of the hip, which confined him to his bed for a 

 year and a half, leaving a permanent lameness. After he recovered 



