{{short description|Norwegian physician and philatelist}} Dr. '''Justus Henrik Anderssen''' (30 December 1867 – 15 June 1938) was a Norwegian physician and philatelist.

==Early life and education== Anderssen was born in Kristiania, the son of Richard Anderssen (1836–1922) and Fredrikke Anfinsen (1838–1905), and the brother of lawyer Johannes Falck Anderssen. He finished his secondary education in 1886 and graduated from Royal Frederick University in 1893 with a cand.med. degree. From 1899 he was a practising physician in Kristiania, and published in medical journals from time to time.<ref name=hvem30>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1930|title=Anderssen, Justus|encyclopedia=Hvem er hvem?|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1930/0023.html|page=23|language=Norwegian|access-date=31 December 2012}}</ref>

==Career== As a philatelist he was a specialist in the stamps of Norway and was entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.<ref name=LP>"Dr. Justus Anderssen" in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. XLVII, July 1938, No. 559, pp. 173-4.</ref> He edited the Nordic periodical ''Nordisk Filatelistisk Tidsskrift'' (1913–1914, 1919–) and the philately column in ''A-Magasinet'' (1927–). With Henrik Dethloff he published ''Norges Frimerker, 1855-1914'' and later ''Norges Frimerker, 1855-1924'' (Postage Stamps of Norway, 1855-1924) as well as ''Frimerkesamlerens A. B. C.'' in 1915.<ref name=hvem30/> Andersen and Dethloff received the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1925 for their work ''Norges Frimerker, 1855-1924''.<ref name=LP/> He died in June 1938.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=1948|title=Fortegnelse over personer som siste gang er omtalt i utgaven 1938 med angivelse av deres dødsdatum|encyclopedia=Hvem er hvem?|editor=Steenstrup, Bjørn|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|url=https://runeberg.org/hvemerhvem/1948/0598.html|page=598|language=Norwegian|access-date=31 December 2012}}</ref>

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