Christian Ingerslev Baastrup

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup (born January 24, 1885 in Copenhagen ; † 1950 ibid.) Was a Danish radiologist from Copenhagen, after whom Baastrup's disease , a back ailment he described in 1932, is named.

Life

Christian Ingerslev Baastrup was the son of Christiane Margrethe and the wine merchant Carl Lauritz Baastrup from Ingerslev ( Rougsø municipality in the Århus district ). He attended the Borgerdydskolen in Copenhagen and graduated in medicine from the University of Copenhagen in 1909 . After training in various hospitals and working as an assistant doctor in ear, nose and throat medicine and ophthalmology , he was an assistant in the Rigshospitalet's radiological clinic from 1911 to 1913 . From 1912 he belonged to Professor Lorentzen's clinic. He then worked in the radiology clinics Kommunehospitalet and Bispebjerg -Hospitals in Copenhagen, where he was in 1922 head physician of the X-ray department and 1935 senior doctor.

Baastrup took part in a large number of international radiological congresses and worked for the professional journal Acta radiologica . In 1919 he co-founded the Nordisk Forening for Radiologi in Oslo and initiated a medical history museum, to which he bequeathed one of the largest and most complete collections of historical X-ray equipment. He was a member of the German Radiological Society and Membre titulaire of the Société de Radiologie médicale de France .

Baastrup was married to Unni Krog from Bergen (Norway) . He is described as a warm, helpful man with an inventive spirit in his field. He was a prolific writer.

Web links

• Christian Ingerslev Baastrup at whonamedit.com