Michael Skjelderup

Michael Skjelderup (22 October 1769 – 16 April 1852) was a Norwegian physician and educator.

[1] Skjelderup was born in the parish of Hof in Vestfold, Norway.

He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery (1794) and first held a position as a professor at the University of Copenhagen (1805–14).

He was the father of Norwegian Government minister Jacob Worm Skjelderup.

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