Oscar Wanscher

He matriculated from.Westen's institute and earned a Master of Medicine degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1871.

He was instrumental in introducing ether at the hospital as a replacement for chloroform as an anesthetic.

In 1885, he unsuccessfully competed with E. A. Tschernin and O. Bloch for the position as Mathias Saxtorph's successor at the university (in.

She was the daughter of businessman Christopher Theodor Friedenreich Hage (1819–72) and Nannie (Nancy) Amelie Margrethe Hammerich (1827–1902).

The daughter Ellen Margrethe Wanscher (1883–1867) married the architect Mogens Lassen.