Povl Winning Toussieng

June 15, 1892 (age 74)

He went on to study medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Toussieng married Ingeborg Marie Amalie Hansen, and they had to children: Povl Winning Toussieng Junior(September 5, 1918 - November 17, 1997) who became a child psychiatrist in Oklahoma City and Agnete Toussieng(June 25, 1921 – May 31, 2006). Toussieng met Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at the Dutch embassy in Copenhagen, and she encouraged him to go to the Dutch East Indies. Toussieng left Denmark for the Dutch East Indies in 1922 on a three-year contract with the Dutch Government. He was stationed in Borneo from 1922 to 1925, whereafter Toussieng continued working as a General Practice in the eastern part of Java - in Malang until 1937. While he worked as a General Practice he also worked as a doctor for the Pasoeroean sugartesting station. Travelogues In 1937 Toussieng returned to Denmark, and became a General Practice in Charlottenlund in 1938. He wrote two books about his experiences in the jungles of the Dutch East Indies: Mahakam: Den store flod (Mahakam: The big river) and Mahakam, ovenfor Faldene (Mahakam, above the falls). Both books where published in 1941. Collection of cultural objects Toussieng was given a large number of masks, swords, spears and cultural objects from his grateful patients in the Dutch East Indies. Toussiengs descendants have donated a large number of these objects to the National Museum of Denmark. One of the objects - a mask - has since been portrayed on a Danish stamp. Toussieng was active in 1st Company of the Danish Home Guard, and he hid resistance fighters during the German occupation of Denmark during the second world war. They were questioned and interned for a periode of time before they were released.

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Background

Povl Winning Toussieng was son of colonel Heinrich Elfred Theodor Toussieng(1845-1908) and Regina Frederikke Winning(1859-1938).

Education

Povl Winning Toussieng attended Rungsted Boarding School in Rungsted, Denmark. After having graduated in 1917, he became a general practitioner(General Practice) in Nysted, Denmark.

Career

He went on to study medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Toussieng married Ingeborg Marie Amalie Hansen, and they had to children: Povl Winning Toussieng Junior(September 5, 1918 - November 17, 1997) who became a child psychiatrist in Oklahoma City and Agnete Toussieng(June 25, 1921 – May 31, 2006). Toussieng met Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at the Dutch embassy in Copenhagen, and she encouraged him to go to the Dutch East Indies.

Toussieng left Denmark for the Dutch East Indies in 1922 on a three-year contract with the Dutch Government.

He was stationed in Borneo from 1922 to 1925, whereafter Toussieng continued working as a General Practice in the eastern part of Java - in Malang until 1937. While he worked as a General Practice he also worked as a doctor for the Pasoeroean sugartesting station.

Travelogues

In 1937 Toussieng returned to Denmark, and became a General Practice in Charlottenlund in 1938. He wrote two books about his experiences in the jungles of the Dutch East Indies: Mahakam: Den store flod (Mahakam: The big river) and Mahakam, ovenfor Faldene (Mahakam, above the falls).

Both books where published in 1941.

Collection of cultural objects

Toussieng was given a large number of masks, swords, spears and cultural objects from his grateful patients in the Dutch East Indies. Toussiengs descendants have donated a large number of these objects to the National Museum of Denmark. One of the objects - a mask - has since been portrayed on a Danish stamp.

Toussieng was active in 1st Company of the Danish Home Guard, and he hid resistance fighters during the German occupation of Denmark during the second world war.

They were questioned and interned for a periode of time before they were released.

Achievements

Toussieng also worked to improve the conditions of refugees from the Netherlands, and after the war, he was awarded the Dutch Red Cross medal and appointed an officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau.

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