Hjalmar Heiberg
Hjalmar Heiberg was a Norwegian physician and a professor at the University of Oslo.
Biography
He was born in Christiania, Norway. He was the son of physician Christen Heiberg. His father was professor in surgery and general practitioner at the National Hospital. He received his cand.med. in 1862. Heiberg was Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Christiania and from 1859 worked was an assistant to Emanuel Winge at the National Hospital as a pathologist and bacteriologist researcher.He received a one-year scholarship and took a study trip to Würzburg and Vienna in 1869-70. In 1870 followed Winge as professor of pathological medicine. He was also a general practitioner at the National Hospital, and a specialist in forensic medicine. Heiberg was a proponent for the new theory of bacteria. His research speciality was the subject of inflammation and published several key articles on the field of infection, both on the basis of his own research and as a provider of foreign research.