Morten Ansgar Kveim

{{Short description|Norwegian pathologist}}

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Morten Ansgar Kveim (27 December 1892 – 24 March 1966) was a Norwegian pathologist most remembered for describing the Kveim test.{{cite web|url=http://www.bad.org.uk/shared/get-file.ashx?itemtype=document&id=1397|title= Morten Ansgar Kveim|publisher= Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals |accessdate= January 1, 2017 }}

Kveim was born at Gjerstad in Aust-Agder, Norway. First starting in philology, he completed his medical training at the University of Oslo (1924). He qualified in medicine in 1925, and worked in private practice at a number of small towns in Norway. After 1929 he worked in the department of diseases of the skin in the Rikshospitalet in Oslo, becoming assistant physician in 1936.{{cite web|url=http://granuloma.homestead.com/kveim.html|title= Kveim-Siltzbach Test |publisher= granuloma.homestead |accessdate= January 1, 2017 }}