Background
He was born in Farsund as a son of consul Peter Ingvard Sundt (1841–1917) and his wife Anna Christiane Salvesen.
merchant physician politician president
He was born in Farsund as a son of consul Peter Ingvard Sundt (1841–1917) and his wife Anna Christiane Salvesen.
He was a president of the Norwegian Medical Association. He finished his secondary education in 1892, and graduated with the candidate.med. degree in 1900. He was a municipal physician in Gol from 1903 to 1908, physician in Vadsø from 1908 to 1911, then from 1911 to 1943 chief physician in Stavern.
In 1920 he took the dr.med. degree with a thesis on the Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome.
He was a freelance researcher after his retirement from the hospital in Stavern. From 1933 to 1935 he was the president of the Norwegian Medical Association, and from 1937 to 1945 he chaired Nationalforeningen mot tuberkulose.
He was a city council member in Vadsø, and from 1914 to 1922 in Stavern. He died in January 1951 in Stavern.
He was also a member of Stavern school board for 15 years.