Boeck, caesar

(¤ 1845, † 1917) Norwegian dermatologist, born on 28. 9.1845 in Lier, Norway, the son of a captain His family came from Denmark and had originally immigrated from Bocken in Flanders. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine in Oslo (then Kristiania); afterwards he worked as an assistant to a district doctor. 1874 Study visits to England, France and Austria (here with Ferdinand von Hebra). In 1875 he first worked as an epidemiologist in Egersund during a smallpox outbreak. In 1878 he was an assistant at the Reichshospital in Oslo, where his uncle Karl-Wilhelm Boeck was director of the skin clinic. 1885 Study visits to Germany and France. 1889 appointed director of the skin clinic at the Reichshospital in Oslo (successor to his uncle). In 1896 he was appointed full professor. From 1872 he published a large number of clinical and therapeutic treatises, including the first description of sarcoidosis in 1899. In 1915 Caesar Boeck retired and died on 17 March 1917 at the age of 72. Cases of sarcoidosis had been described earlier by Ernest Besnier and Jonathan Hutchinson. However, they considered them to be a variant of lupus vulgaris. Caesar Boeck, on the other hand, recognised its independence and gave the sarcoidosis the name it still bears today.