Edvard Laurits Ehlers was a Danish

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 dermatologist

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 whose name was given to a group of gen

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etic misfunctions of connective tissue

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, the so-called Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS).

Edvard Lauritz Ehlers grew up as the Mayor of Copenhagen

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's son and qualified in medicine in 1891. In the following years he went into further studies in Berlin

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, Breslau, Vienna

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 and Paris

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. In Iceland

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 he studied the decline of leprosy

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 and was rewarded for his studies with a prize from the National Leprosy Fund in London

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. In 1906 he was appointed chief of the dermatological polyclinic

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 at the Frederiks Hospital

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 in Copenhagen. From 1911 to his retirement in 1932, Ehlers was director at the municipal hospital of Copenhagen.

The Danish-born Australian artist Sussanne Morton born, Susanne Ehlers, (*1963), is his granddaughter, a celebrated artist in the disciplines of realism

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 and abstract painting. Sussanne began her artistic journey as a young girl growing up in Australia, with the encouragement of her father, Hedde Guy Ehlers, adopted son of Edvard Ehlers. Sussanne Morton was born in Rejsby, Denmark

Denmark

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