1. Gabriel Langfeldt was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1940 to 1965.
16 Facts About Gabriel Langfeldt
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Gabriel Langfeldt was involved as an expert during the trial against Hamsun, and wrote a book about Quisling.
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Gabriel Langfeldt earned his degree in medicine in 1926 with a thesis on the endocrine glands and autonomic nervous system in relation to schizophrenia.
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Gabriel Langfeldt became leader of the clinic in 1940, appointed by the German-led occupation administration and confirmed by the legitimate Norwegian government in 1945.
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Gabriel Langfeldt published further studies on schizophrenia in 1937 and 1939, in which he developed a distinction between "typical schizophrenia" and "schizophreniform psychoses".
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Gabriel Langfeldt was a keynote speaker at the 2nd International Congress for Psychiatry held in Zurich in 1958 devoted to knowledge on "groups of schizophrenia".
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Gabriel Langfeldt travelled to Vienna to study the insulin shock therapy against schizophrenia developed by Manfred Sakel, but was skeptical of the method.
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Gabriel Langfeldt chaired the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine from 1946 to 1965.
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In October 1946, Gabriel Langfeldt was assigned the task of making a judicial observation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, who had actively supported the Nazi regime during the German occupation of Norway.
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Gabriel Langfeldt insists in the book that the hospitalization had harmed his health more than anything else.
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Gabriel Langfeldt demanded that his name should not be included and the publicist initially demanded the same, but later published the book with Gabriel Langfeldt's name in it.
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In 1952, Gabriel Langfeldt argued that the diagnosis of Hamsun was correct and stressed that the diagnostic finding benefited both Hamsun's legacy and Norway as a nation.
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Originally having religious inclinations, Gabriel Langfeldt gradually developed a secular humanist lifestance.
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Gabriel Langfeldt wrote a book about Albert Schweitzer in 1958 and later corresponded with him.
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Gabriel Langfeldt's third wife, Else Marie Nilssen, was a sister of his second, deceased wife.
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Gabriel Langfeldt continued to work as a psychiatrist until he was in his eighties.