Egil Tynæs

Egil Tynæs (1941 to 2004) was a Norwegian physician who practised anthroposophic medicine and worked as a humanitarian doctor. Born in Lillehammer and raised in Bergen, he qualified as a doctor in Münster in 1970, trained in anaesthesiology in Denmark and worked in the surgical department of the Herdecke community hospital, which was founded to bring the insights of Rudolf Steiner into medical practice. In 1978 he opened a general practice in Bergen based on anthroposophic medicine and later added a therapeutic centre, served as school physician at the Bergen Waldorf school and helped found the Norwegian association for anthroposophic medicine. After two bouts of tuberculosis he qualified as a specialist in internal medicine and became senior doctor at the municipal outdoor clinic in Bergen. In 2002 and 2004 he volunteered for Médecins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan, treating and teaching about tuberculosis, and on 2 June 2004 he was killed with four colleagues in an ambush in the Badghis region on the last day of his assignment.