Fredrik Gottlieb Olsen Ramm

Fredrik Gottlieb Olsen Ramm (1855 to 1932) was a Norwegian physician. Born in Sogndal, the son of a vicar, he finished officer training in 1876 and graduated cand.med. from the Royal Frederick University in 1881. He began as a physician for the fishermen of Lofoten, studied in Germany and Austria in 1883, and then worked for six years as a physician in the United States from 1884 to 1890. Back in Norway he held posts in Stavanger, as reserve physician at Rikshospitalet from 1891, in Tromso from 1894, and as chief physician at Aker Hospital in Oslo from 1897 to 1912. He was known for his 1896 dissertation on castration as a treatment for enlargement of the prostate, and he published prolifically in medical journals. He married Anna Margaretha Brinchmann in 1890, and his son Fredrik Ramm became a well-known journalist. He died in Oslo in November 1932.