Johan Scharffenberg

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Johan Scharffenberg
Johan Scharffenberg in 1959
Born(1869-11-23)23 November 1869
Moss, Norway
Died1 February 1965(1965-02-01) (aged 95)
NationalityNorwegian
Occupation(s)psychiatrist, politician, speaker and writer

Johan Scharffenberg (23 November 1869 – 1 February 1965) was a Norwegian psychiatrist, politician, speaker and writer.

Early life

Scharffenberg was born in

cand.med. degree in 1897.[1]

Career

Caricature from 1905 by Andreas Bloch. Scharffenberg is birched by "Mother Aase"

Scharffenberg served as a physician and psychiatrist at psychiatric institutions and prisons, working in Trondhjem from 1903 to 1904 and then in Kristiania. He worked at the prison Botsfengselet from 1919 to 1940 and was a chief physician at Oslo Hospital from 1922 to late 1945, except for 1941 to early 1945.[1][2] In 1976, a bust of him was raised at Oslo Hospital.[1]

He was an active participant in the contemporary debates, starting in the late 1880s. He issued the poetry collection Hjemløse Sange ('Homeless Songs') as early as in 1889, under the pseudonym Kai Lykke. In 1899 he wrote the book Reform av den medicinske undervisning ('Reform of the Medical Training'), which became unpopular in academic circles at the time. After issuing the three-volume work Bidrag til de norske lægestillingers historie før 1800 ('Contributions to the History of Norwegian Medical Positions Before 1800) in 1904 and 1905, he applied for a fellowship at the Royal Frederick University in 1908. The Faculty of Medicine granted him the fellowship, but this was stopped by the Collegium Academicum (the university's board). Scharffenberg would later attract criticism by rejecting other methods, including that of Wilhelm Reich. He argued for less use of alcohol in the society, and was a member of the Alcohol Commission of 1910, which was established on his initiative.[1]

Scharffenberg was also a

dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.[1]

Second World War

During the 1930s, Scharffenberg was highly critical of the emergence of Nazism in Germany. In a series of articles in

death penalty, and he warned against the occurrences where people took the law into their own hands and humiliated women who had had sexual relations with the occupants.[5]

Post-war career

Scharffenberg was 76 years old in 1945, but still participated in the public debate. He opposed Norwegian membership in

Norwegian Constitution.[8] He died in February 1965 in Oslo.[1]

Selected works

  • Hjemløse Sange (1889, poetry)
  • Norske aktstykker til okkupasjonens forhistorie (1950)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Larsen, Øivind. "Johan Scharffenberg". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  2. Store norske leksikon
    (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  3. ^
    ISBN 82-02-14138-9. Archived from the original
    on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  4. ISBN 0-87013-413-2. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
    )
  5. ISBN 82-03-11423-7
    .
  6. S2CID 154776178
    . Retrieved 13 September 2009.
  7. ^ Sletten, Vegard (4 January 1951). "Inn att i museholet?". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). p. 3.
  8. ISBN 82-7763-125-1
    .
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