Gerhard Armauer Hansen that the leprosy acts of 1877 and 1885 were passed, leading to a steady decline of the disease in Norway from 1,800 known cases in 1875 to just 575 cases in 1901. His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909. Hansen had suffered from syphilis since the 1860s but died of heart disease. He was an atheist. Gerhard Armauer Hansen Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium "Mycobacterium leprae" in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy. Hansen
Erik Fosnes Hansen Erik Fosnes Hansen Erik Fosnes Hansen (born 6 June 1965) is a Norwegian writer. Hansen was born in New York and made his debut at age twenty with the novel "Falketårnet". His best-known work is his second novel, "Psalm at Journey's End", which in separate but steadily more interwoven stories follows the individual musicians who end their careers and lives on the "Titanic". The book has been translated into more than twenty languages. A sequel to "Beretninger om beskyttelse" (Tales of Protection) has been announced but is not yet completed. He has also published poetry and is a frequent contributor