Johan Martin Holst

Johan Martin Holst (1892 to 1953) was a Norwegian physician, surgeon and military doctor, born in Kristiania on 23 June 1892 and dead on 17 February 1953. His father Peter Fredrik Holst was a physician, and he was a nephew of Johan Throne Holst. He graduated as a physician in 1916 and took his dr.med. in 1924, and from 1930 he was professor of surgery at Rikshospitalet. He published on the treatment of Basedow disease and gastrointestinal diseases and on the surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. From 1940 he headed the Norwegian Army Medical Service with the rank of colonel. During the German occupation of Norway he was among the early resistance pioneers in Milorg, and after he had to flee the country he was brought to London, where he served as head of the medical service of the exiled Norwegian military forces.