Jacob Frederik Theodor Lindorff

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Jacob Frederik Theodor Lindorff (born August 19, 1823 , † October 17, 1859 ) was a Danish doctor .

Life

Jacob Frederik Theodor Lindorff was the son of the authorized representative Frederik Georg Lindorff and his wife Louise Amalie Brummer. From 1841 to 1847 he studied medicine and surgery. From 1848 he worked as a submarine doctor before settling in Stege in 1850 . On April 27, 1853 he married Louise Amalie Klenau (von Klenow) (1828–1872), daughter of Major Jørgen Christopher von Klenau (1785–1842) and his wife Cathrine Jensine Kirstine Kehlet (1802–1851). After his death she married the Norwegian captain and engineer Johan Henry van Kervel Heyerdahl (1825–1903).

In the same year he was sent to Greenland , where he was appointed district doctor in Nuuk . He worked hard to improve the health system in Greenland. In 1856 he built the first hospital in Greenland in Nuuk. He also tried to get Greenlanders trained to be medical assistants. In 1856, along with inspector Hinrich Johannes Rink , missionary Samuel Kleinschmidt and seminar leader Carl Emil Janssen, he was one of the people who pushed through the introduction of the Forstanderskaber , which gave the Greenlanders the right to co-determination for the first time. In 1859 he left Greenland, but died on the voyage to Denmark at the age of 36. Pavia Egede, his only apprentice who he had been able to train as a medical assistant at the time, took over the district on an interim basis before, after a year, the German Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Stender was appointed as his successor, who did not take care of his office and let everything that Lindorff deteriorate had built.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gustav Ludvig Wad: Til families from Klenow's Stamtavle. in Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift (2/4). P. 286.
  2. ↑ Biography in Biografisk Leksikon for Grønland
  3. ↑ Grete Rendal: Forstanderskabets virke i Upernavik district 1864 - 1910. Historisk undesøgelse af forstanderskabets Funktion og indvirkning på samfundet i Upernavik district. Ilisimatusarfik 2006. pp. 16f.
personal data
SURNAME Lindorff, Jacob Frederik Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1823
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1859