Nikolai Nissen Paus

Nikolai Nissen Paus (1877 to 1956) was a Norwegian surgeon, hospital director and humanitarian, born in Christiania and died in Tonsberg. He directed Vestfold Hospital from 1918 to 1947, building the institution and shaping it decisively over nearly three decades. He served as President of the Norwegian Red Cross and of the Norwegian Florence Nightingale Committee, chaired several government committees and sat on the executive board of the Norwegian Medical Association. During the Winter War he led and took part in the Norwegian humanitarian effort in Finland as head of the Norwegian Red Cross field hospital. He received the Order of St. Olav in 1948, and Aftenposten called him one of the country's preeminent physicians on his death.