Magnus Andreas Thulstrup

Magnus Andreas Thulstrup (1769 to 1844) was a Norwegian surgeon who held senior posts in the early medical life of the University of Christiania. His background lay in the military field cutting profession, the trade that developed into modern anatomy and surgery, and his army medical career culminated in 1819 with the position of Norwegian general surgeon. From 1814 he was a professor of surgery and obstetrics at the university, counted among its first professors, and from 1826 he was chief surgeon at Rikshospitalet, the national hospital in Oslo. He also served on the commission for pharmaceutical legislation and was a member of the Norwegian Medical Society, Det Norske Medicinske Selskab. He married Eleonore Clauson-Kaas.