Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann

Who was Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann?

Jörgen Nilsen Schaumann was a Swedish dermatologist.

He studied medicine at the University of Lund, obtaining his medicine license in Stockholm in 1907. Subsequently, he performed dermatological duties at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm, and in 1912, began work as a physician at the Finsen Institute in Copenhagen, where he remained until retirement in 1946. In 1939 he received the title of professor.

Schaumann's name is associated with the Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease. In 1917 he published an article on the disease, from which the systemic nature of the disease came to be realized by the medical community. His name is also lent to Schaumann bodies, which are calcium-containing inclusion bodies found in the cytoplasm of giant cells in sarcoidosis and berylliosis. Schaumann bodies were initially described in 1871 by Oscar von Schüppel, a pathologist at the University of Tübingen. Following retirement, Schaumann conducted research involving new aspects of benign lymphogranulomatosis.

Schaumann was an accomplished artist, whose paintings and sculptures adorned several locations in Stockholm.