Johannes Larsen Flatla

Who is Johannes Larsen Flatla?

Johannes Larsen Flatla was a Norwegian veterinarian.

He was born in Lunner as a son of farmer Lars Flatla and Kari Horgen. He finished his secondary education in 1925, and graduated from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in 1931. He worked as a veterinarian in Lunner before being hired as an associate professor of pathology at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in 1937. He was a professor there from 1947 to 1968, and then director of the National Veterinary Institute from 1968 to his death.

He was also a guest scholar/lecturer at the Norwegian College of Agriculture, in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Cambridge, and a member of the research council NLVF from 1949 to 1959. He was a central board member of the Norwegian Veterinary Association from 1939 and acting secretary-general in the summer of 1945, after World War II.