Birger Malling

Birger Malling (8 June 1884 – 8 December 1989) was a Norwegian ophthalmologist and educator.

[1] He was born in Bergen as a son of district stipendiary magistrate Michael Vilhelm Malling (1843–1918) and Marie Eleonora Henrichsen (1856–1944).

Between 1939 and 1954 he was a professor of medicine at the University of Oslo and chief physician at the Rikshospitalet.

He chaired Norske Øyenlægers Forening from 1932 to 1933 and was an editorial board member of Medicinsk Revue.

[2][3][4] He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1941, Swedish Society of Medicine (Svenska Läkaresällskapet) from 1945 and was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1959.