Frederik Holst (physician)

Frederik Holst (14 August 1791 – 4 June 1871) was a Norwegian medical doctor.

He was the son of merchant Hans Holst (1763–1846) and Inger Christine Backer (1765–1850).

He studied at the University of Copenhagen and earned his medical diploma based upon his doctoral thesis about the then-common and now-extinct skin disease radesyke [no], known in Latin as lepra norvegica (1817).

His works had significant influence on the treatment of prisoners and of patients with mental disorders.

Together with Michael Skjelderup, he started and published Eyrt, the first Norwegian medical journal (1826).