Niels Thorkild Rovsing [SEP] place of death
Niels Thorkild Rovsing
Niels Thorkild Rovsing (26 April 1862, Flensborg – 14 January 1927, Copenhagen) was a Danish surgeon remembered for describing Rovsing's sign.
Biography.
Niels Thorkild Rovsing had qualified in medicine by the age of 23. He became professor of operative surgery in 1899 at the University of Copenhagen. Because this post did not allow him hospital bed privileges, Rovsing opened a private surgical nursing home. It was enlarged and equipped with X-ray facilities a few years later. In 1904, at
Thorkild
Thorkild may refer to:
- Thorkild Fjeldsted, Icelandic lawyer, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1769 to 1772
- Thorkild Grosbøll (born 1948), parish priest in the Church of Denmark
- Thorkild Hansen (1927–1989), Danish novelist known for his Slave Trilogy
- Thorkild Jacobsen (1904–1993), renowned historian specialising in Assyriology and Sumerian literature
- Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), Danish surgeon remembered for describing Rovsing's sign
- Thorkild Simonsen (born 1926), Danish politician