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Rudolph Bergh
Rudolph Bergh.jpg
Image of Rudolph Bergh by Peder Severin Kr�yer in 1894
Born 15 October 1824
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died 20 July 1909 (aged 84)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Scientific career
Fields medicine and malacology

Bust of Rudolph Bergh made by Peder Severin Kr�yer is in Copenhagen.

Rudolph Bergh (October 15, 1824 � July 20, 1909), full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph
Bergh, was a Danish physician and malacologist. He worked in Copenhagen.

As a doctor his speciality was sexually transmitted diseases. In Copenhagen a

hospital and a street are named after him.

Bergh was also an active malacologist, i.e. a zoologist who studies molluscs, in
particular the nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropods. He had well over 90
publications in this field and took part in a scientific expedition to Indonesia.
He named and described numerous species of nudibranchs.

Contents
1 Biography
2 As a physician
3 As a zoologist
4 See also
5 Bibliography
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
Biography
Rudolph Bergh was born in Copenhagen. His father was the son of the chief physician
in the army of Louis Anton Berg. His mother was Anne Sophie Kirstine (maiden name
Pedersen). Bergh graduated from the Det von Westenske Institut in 1842, and
received his medical degree in 1849.

Dr. Rudolph Bergh became an attending physician at what was then Almindeligt
Hospital, the general hospital in Amaliegade, Copenhagen, in 1863. He worked in the
department of skin diseases and venereal diseases. In 1886, he moved from there to
Vestre Hospital, where he worked until 1903.

Bergh died in 1909. One year after his death, Vestre Hospital was renamed Rudolph
Bergh Hospital in honor of his memory.[1] At that hospital, anyone who wished to
could be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, and get advice on safe sex and
birth control without any change and while retaining their anonymity. In 2000, some
of these functions were transferred to Bispebjerg Hospital.[citation needed]

There is a bust of Bergh in Copenhagen, in front of the eponymous "Rudolph Bergh's

Hospital", on Tietgensgade.[2] The bust was a gift from his colleagues and stood
for years in his home. After his death Bergh's widow donated it to the hospital.
[citation needed]

Bergh was awarded a knighthood of the Third Class Order (Ridder af Dannebrog) of
Order of the Dannebrog and also the Dannebrogordenens H�derstegn (Cross of Honour
of the Order of the Dannebrog).[3]

In Copenhagen there is a street named in honor of him: Rudolph Berghs Gade (in
English: Rudolph Bergh's Street) in Ydre �sterbro.

His son Rudolph Sophus Bergh (September 22, 1859 - December 7, 1924) was a
zoologist and a composer.[3]

As a physician
His medical specialization was sexually transmitted diseases.[2] Among the many
texts that Rudolph Bergh wrote was About Tattoos in the public woman, which was
published in the Hospital Journal in 1891. The work is about connections between
prostitution, crime and tattoos. The article seems antiquated today and should not
be taken as the sole expression of Rudolph Bergh great efforts to improve public
health and in particular reduce the harmful effects of sexually transmitted
diseases.[citation needed]

Bergh was also one of the editors of the hospital magazine Hospitalstidende, where
he published nearly all of his over 50 medical articles.[3]

(in Danish) Bergh R. (1891). "Om Tatoveringer hos de offentlige Fruentimmer". (in
English: About Tattoos in the public woman) S�rtryk af "Hospitals-Tidende".
Copenhagen.
As a zoologist
Bergh started to study molluscs when he was nearly 30, probably under the influence
of Japetus Steenstrup, a Danish biologist who was 11 years older than he was and
who was a professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen.[3]

He wrote reports of the Challenger expedition (1884) and the Albatross expedition
(1894).[3] He took part in the examination of species that were collected during
the "Siboga Expedition".[4]

Bergh became the world's leading expert on nudibranchs. He wrote his main
malacological works as well as over 90 malacological articles and papers.[3] Among
other notable works are his work about the anatomy of the radula of the genus Conus
(1896).[5] His malacological drawing are considered to be "excellent".[3] He was
mainly anatomist and reached great progress in systematics based on anatomy of
nervous system and of reproductive system of gastropods.[3] Bergh was very active
in naming and describing species of nudibranchs and other sea slugs. The species he
named include:[citation needed]

Armina semperi (Bergh, 1861)

Chromodoris annae Bergh, 1877
Chromodoris dalli (Bergh, 1879) [1]
Chromodoris elisabethina (Bergh, 1877)
Chromodoris morchii Bergh, 1879 [2]
Chromodoris punctilucens Bergh, 1890 [3]
Thuridilla lineolata Bergh, 1905 [4]
Phyllodesmium briareum (Bergh, 1896)
Phyllodesmium longicirrum (Bergh, 1905)
The nudibranch genus Berghia was named after him by Salvatore Trinchese in 1877.
[citation needed]

His colleague and friend was German ethnologist and animal ecologist Carl Semper.
[5]

See also
Paul Mayer (zoologist)
Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer
Mattheus Marinus Schepman
Edgar Albert Smith
Bibliography
(in German) Bergh R. (1858). Beitr�ge zur Kenntniss der Coniden. Nova Acta der Ksl.
Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforschen, Halle. Band 65, number 2, 214
pp., 13 tables.
Bergh R. (1870). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: C.G. Semper, Reisen im Archipel
der Philippinen, Wissenschaftliche Resultate. Band 2, Heft 1: 1-30, Pls. 1-8.
Bergh L. S. R. (1877). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Reisen im Archipel der
Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche
Resultate. Band 2, Theil 2, Heft 11, pp. 429�494, pls. 54-57.
Bergh L. S. R. (1879). Neue Chromodoriden. Malakozool. Blatt, N. E 1 : 87-116; pt.
3 (31 March 1879)
Bergh L. S. R. (1879). On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North
Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Part I. Proc. Acad. Nat
Sci. Philadelphia 31: 71-132; pl. 1-8 (10 May 1879)
Bergh L. S. R. (1879). On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North
Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Part 1. Sci. Results
Explor. Alaska 1: 127-188; pl. 9-16
Bergh L. S. R. (1879). Gattungen nordische Doriden. Archiv f�r Naturgeschichte
45(1): 340-369, pl. 19.
Bergh L. S. R. (1880). On the nudibranchiate gasteropod Mollusca of the North
Pacific Ocean, with special reference to those of Alaska. Part 2. Sci. Results
Explor. Alaska 2: 189-276; pl. 1-8 (10 May 1879)
Bergh, L. S. R. (1881). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Reisen im Archipel der
Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche
Resultate. Band 2, Theil 4, Heft 2, pp. 79�128, pls. G, H, J-L.
Bergh, R. (1890). "Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of
Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-
80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer �Blake�, Lieut.-Commander C. D. Sigsbee,
U.S.N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. Report on the
nudibranchs". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 19(3): 155-181, 3 pls.
Bergh, L. S. R. (1892). Malacologische Untersuchungen. In: Reisen im Archipel der
Philippinen von Dr. Carl Gottfried Semper. Zweiter Theil. Wissenschaftliche
Resultate. Band 2, Theil 3, Heft 18, pp. 995�1165.
Bergh, R. (1898). Die Opisthobranchier der Sammlung Plate. Zoologische Jahrb�cher,
Supplement 4(3): 481-582, pl. 28-33.
Bergh, R. (1905). Die Opisthobranchia. Siboga Expedition Monograph 50: 1-248.
Plates 1-20.
Bergh, R. (1908). The Opisthobranchiata of South Africa. Marine investigations in
South Africa. Cape Town. 5: 1-144. including 14 plates. (From the Transactions of
the South African Philosophical Society 12.)
References
This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA) text from Danish Wikipedia
from 5 January 2010.

(in Danish) Zachariae H. (2007). "Sophus Engelsted og Rudolph Bergh". Ugeskrift

for L�ger 169(35): 2864. PDF
Dr Rudolph Bergh (1824-1909), accessed 4 December 2008.
Schlesch H. (1946). "Rudolph Bergh". Journal of Conchology 22(9): 225-226. English
translation
Michael D. Miller. 1999. Nudi branch of the Week is Phyllodesmium longicirra. The
Slug Site, accessed 4 December 2008.
Dall W. H. (October 1909). "Ludwig Rudolph Sophus Bergh". The Nautilus 23(5): 72.
Further reading
Petersen J. & Colin J. (1888). "Bergh, Ludvig Sophus Rudolf, f. 1824". Dansk
Biografisk Leksikon, tillige omfattende Norge for tidsrummet 1537-1814, Kj�benhavn.
2: 113-115.
Dall W. H. (1909). "Ludwig Rudolph Sophus Bergh". Science 30(766): 304.
doi:10.1126/science.30.766.304
Vayssi�re A. (1910). "N�crologie. Rudolph Bergh". Journal de Conchyliologie 58(1):
110-119. (include portrait and signature)
Winckworth R. (1946). "On Bergh�s Malacologische Untersuchungen". Proceedings of
the Malacological Society of London 27(1): 20-22.
Burn R. (1978). "Publication dates of Bergh�s 1879 papers describing American
chromodorids". The Veliger 20(3): 198-299.
Jensen K. R. (2006). "The type collection of specimens described by Rudolf Bergh
and housed in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen". 72nd Annual Meeting of the
American Malacological Society, Abstracts and Program: 52. (abstract)
External links
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A list of those of his publications which include Western Atlantic sea slugs
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