PMID: 11639157Oct 20, 2001Paper

It is a long way from Slagelse to Sebastopol

Dansk medicinhistorisk årbog
E Braun

Abstract

Above I have told the story of Frederik Lov, who was the brother of my great-great-grandmother. He was born in 1802 as son of a watchmaker and graduated from the grammar school in Slagelse in 1822, the very year when the fairyteller Hans Christian Andersen was sent to the same school. Frederik Lov went to Copenhagen to study at >The Royal Surgical Academy<, but just before his final graduation he left for St. Petersburg in Russia as the Russian government had invited senior medical students and young doctors to come to work in Russia. True, it has been promised that the students could pass their exam in Russia in their native language. However, it turned out that Danish was not covered, so instead he was examined in Latin and passed his examination in 1828. He started his medical career at the naval hospital in Archangelsk, where he stayed for two years and learned to speak Russian. In 1830 he went with the frigate >Smirna< from Archangelsk towards Kronstadt, but was shipwrecked near Halmstad in Sweden. He was saved and could continue the journey one month later. In Kronstadt he was offered to join the Black Sea navy. He went to Sebastopol, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He participated in several military actions, e...Continue Reading

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