Jørgen Løvset (4 January 1896 – 15 August 1981) was a Norwegian professor of medicine, gynecology and obstetrics. He was the son of a farmer Arnt Løvset (1873–1938) and Helle Hove (1870–1911), married Selma Margaret Nilsen (1894–1986) in 1924, divorced 1950, and married again in 1951 with the nurse Aslaug Tordis Gil (1921–1976). Education Løvset graduated with examen artium in 1916, then studied medicine at the University of Christiania and was MD in 1924. After some years in private practice and many years as a hospital doctor, he defended dr.med. degree work Somatische Konstitutionszüge und Ihre Beziehungen zur Geburt des Kinder in 1940. Career After the candidate service Løvset came to Orkanger as practitioner for four years. He started his hospital career in 1929, and visited several specialized departments before concentrating on obstetrics and gynecology, with education positions at three of the largest Norwegian institutions in the subject: Rikshospitalets Kvinneklinikk in Oslo, Oslo Municipal Kvinneklinikk and the Kvinneklinikken at Haukeland sykehus. In 1931, he returned to Bergen as a registrar at Kvinneklinikken. Løvset was at Haukeland sykehus for almost four years before it went to the education side of Oslo as reserve physician at Women's Clinic, National Hospita from 1936 to 1940. In 1940, he became physician at the Kvinneklinikken, Haukeland sykehus, the same year he defended dr.med. degree. Løvset wrote several books, including a textbook for midwives. The last internationally known law book published was in 1968, a health teaching for pregnant women and mothers and a monograph on vaginal delivery. When the University of Bergen was opened in 1946, Løvset became professor there. In 1950 he encouraged Astrid Kruse Andersen to work at Kvinneklinikken in Bergen to start up with pregnancy and postnatal exercise as they were the first institution in Norway that offered. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen from 1952 to 1957 and the university's vice rector from 1954 to 1957. Løvset was one of the pioneers of gynecology and obstetrics, and after Christian Kielland (1871–1941), the best-known Norwegian gynecologist internationally. He constructed new and improved old instruments and developed techniques to safer delivery in difficult situations, especially for fetuses that were born in the breech. He was involved in the changes in obstetrics where it went from being primarily a subject og fetal delivery with emphasis on the mechanics of birth, to be more similar to other medical