Inge Heiberg

Inge Valdemar Heiberg (11 October 1861 – 1 July 1920) was a Norwegian physician who served as director of medicine in Belgian Congo from 1911 to 1920.

[3] He assisted an LSTM team that arrived in the Congo Free State on 23 September 1903 to assess public health, and sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis) in particular.

The team spent nine months in the Lower Congo, then on 30 June 1904 began investigating upstream as far as Kasongo.

[4] In Congo, he lived in Lado and Ibembo before moving to Boma when promoted to Médicin en chef (director of medicine) in 1911.

[1] Among his professional endeavors was to fight the "sleeping sickness",[3] but he also believed a certain degree of corporal punishment of the natives to be necessary as a part of disciplining and civilizing.