Arthur Collett

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Arthur Collett (8 May 1879 – 2 August 1968) was a Norwegian pediatrician and President of the Norwegian Pediatric Society.

The Norwegian Society of Pediatricians is the Norwegian association of pediatricians.

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Background

He was born in Trondhjem a son of estate owner Albert Collett and Nanna Høegh. In 1912, he married Baroness Ingeborg Wedel-Jarlsberg, daughter of estate owner Baron Carl Gustav Wedel-Jarlsberg of Atlungstad and Amalie Thomine Michelet.

Trondheim City in Norway

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Albert Collett Norwegian landowner

Albert Peter Severin Collett was a Norwegian businessman, timber merchant and sawmill owner. He founded Firma Albert Collett and became one of the largest landowners in the valley of Namdalen in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.

Career

Arthur Collett graduated as a medical doctor at the Royal Frederick University in 1905 and was conferred the dr.med. (D.Sc.) degree in 1920, with the thesis Om urinveisinfektion i barnealderen. Early in his career, he was district physician in Modum and deputy consultant in pediatrics at the National Hospital 1911–1915. He had a private practice in Christiania (Oslo) from 1911. He was also head school physician in Oslo from 1920.

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Modum Municipality in Buskerud, Norway

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He published several scientific works on pediatric topics, such as infant mortality, child care and infant care, including as an expert for the League of Nations.

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The League of Nations, abbreviated as LN or LoN, was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Other issues in this and related treaties included labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members.

He was a board member of the Norwegian Pediatric Society from its establishment in 1919, and became Vice President in 1923 and was President 1931–1932. He was also President of the Norwegian Association for the Promotion of Relief and Assistance to Children from 1924 and Vice President of the Norwegian Child Welfare Council from 1927. He was also a member of the school board in Oslo from 1926. He was editor of Sundhetsbladet from 1934. [1] [2]

He was an honorary member of the Norwegian Pediatric Society (1959).

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References

  1. ↑ "Collett, Arthur," in Hvem er Hvem? , 1930, p. 89
  2. ↑ "Collett, Arthur," in Tillegg til Norges læger 1800–1908, Aschehoug, 1944
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