Justus Anderssen
Dr. Justus Henrik Anderssen (30 December 1867 – 15 June 1938) was a Norwegian physician and philatelist.
Early life and education[]
Anderssen was born in Kristiania, the son of Richard Anderssen (1836–1922) and Fredrikke Anfinsen (1838–1905), and the brother of lawyer . He finished his secondary education in 1886 and graduated from Royal Frederick University in 1893 with a cand.med. degree. From 1899 he was a practising physician in Kristiania, and published in medical journals from time to time.[1]
Career[]
As a philatelist he was a specialist in the stamps of Norway and was entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.[2] He edited the Nordic periodical Nordisk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift (1913–1914, 1919–) and the philately column in A-Magasinet (1927–). With Henrik Dethloff he published Norges Frimerker, 1855-1914 and later Norges Frimerker, 1855-1924 (Postage Stamps of Norway, 1855-1924) as well as Frimerkesamlerens A. B. C. in 1915.[1] Andersen and Dethloff received the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1925 for their work Norges Frimerker, 1855-1924.[2] He died in June 1938.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1930). "Anderssen, Justus". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 23. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Dr. Justus Anderssen" in The London Philatelist, Vol. XLVII, July 1938, No. 559, pp. 173-4.
- ^ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1948). "Fortegnelse over personer som siste gang er omtalt i utgaven 1938 med angivelse av deres dødsdatum". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 598. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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