D. C. Danielssen. 



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residence abroad, to continue his studies of diseases of the 

 skin and to study foreign hospitals. In the heginning of 1847 he 

 therefore weiit to Paris, where he remained till the end of the 

 year, with the exception of a couple of months during which he 

 visited hospitals in Switzerland, Lombardy and Sardinia. In Paris 

 was published a French edition of his and Boeck r s joint work on 

 leprosy, the result of the past years' work. 



On the Ist of October 1849 the Lungegaard Hospital was in 

 working order with Danielssen as head surgeon. From that day, 

 and until this spring, when he was laid on his last sick-bed, there 

 were not niany days that Danielssen did not pay his morning 

 visits, and not many months that the management of this great 

 institution did not rest on his shoulders. 



But this ofticial business and the scientific work connected with 

 it was not sufficient for Danielssen's restless activity, although until 

 1875 he had, besides his hospital work, a large private practice. 



From an early date Danielssen had tåken an interest in natural 

 history, and this brought him into contact with the zoologists 

 Michael Sars and Koren. The zoological work on which he entercd 

 through their inlluenee, caused him to undertake several journeys 

 of investigation, amongst others to Finmark in 1857; and in the 

 years 1876 — 1878, he took part in the North- Atlantic expedition. The 

 results of these labours found utterance in a copious literary production. 



As a matter of course a man of Danielssen's powers and energy, 

 was called upon to come forward in affairs of the town and in 

 politics. 



In 1856 he was chosen member of the standing committee of 

 the Town Council, and for a couple of years he took an active 

 part in its affairs, after which he passed into the common council of 

 which he remained a member till his death, and in which, up to 

 the last, he took an active and resolute part in the discussion of 

 all important matters. 



In 1859 — 60 he took his seat in the ''Storting", as deputy 

 for stiftamtmand Schydtz, who had died immediately after his 

 election, and later he was one of the representatives for Bergen 

 in 1862—63. 1864. 1871—73 and 1874 — 76. In the Storting he 

 helel a fairly prominent place, which was shown by his being 

 made, at all sessions from 1862, one of the electing committee. 

 and a member of various deputations, for instance at the opening 

 of the Stockholm-Goteborg railway in 1862, at the unveiling of the 



