D. C. Danielssen. 



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According to Danielssen's own directions, his body was to be 

 cremated; he was deeply interested in the question of cremation, 

 and often regretted that in our country there was yet no crema- 

 torium and no law which authorized cremation. His body had 

 therefore to be brought to Gøteborg (accompanied by his son in law, 

 Doctor Gr. A. Hansen, and the author of the present biography) 

 where the cremation took place on the 2 Ist of July. Thus with regard to 

 the question of cremation, as in so many other directions, Danielssen 

 led the way, as he was the first Bergen man who was cremated. 



Before being tåken on board the steamer, which was to carry 

 the body away, it was placed in the vestibule of the museum for the 

 ceremony of casting earth upon the coffin, the hall being draped in 

 black, and tastefully decorated with plants and flowers. Long be- 

 fore 5.30, the appointed hour, the spacious hall and the adjoining 

 rooms were filled with townspeople, all in mourning — the members 

 of the Bergen town council, deputations from the leper hospitals, 

 members of the museum association etc. — and many were those, 

 who from want of space could not obtain admission. Here then 

 a ceremony took place, the rare beauty of which is sure to have 

 left a deep impression on the minds of everybody present. 



After the officiating clergyman, pastor Prydtz, had in an address 

 full of feeling spoken of the great work of the diseased for suffering 

 humanity, Doctor G. A. Hansen placed on the coffin a silver 

 wreath from the Bergen Museum. In describing the splendid work 

 performed by Danielssen in developing that institution, he expressed 

 the gratitude of the townsmen and countrymen of the deceased 

 for all he had done for the museum as a scientific institution, 

 and as a means to develop the people and to educate them to 

 higher views on scientific subjects. 



The chairman of the Bergen municipality, Kl. Hanssen, placed a 

 silver wreath from the "Storting" on the coffin; the vice chairman, Mr. 

 Chr. Michelsen, presented a similar one from the Bergen town council: 



"In gratitude for all that dr. Danielssen had throughont a long life 

 accomplished of good and useful for that municipality — by his great example 

 of a disinterested public spirit, by his touching love of his native city, and by 

 his unshaken belief in its future and its power of development". 



On behalf of the medical society, head surgeon Klaus Hanssen, 

 in depositing a silver wreath, spoke as follows: 



"I have been deputed by the Bergen medical society to present our last 

 greetings to Danielssen. 



