Famous People with Name Bang

Bang Seung-Hwan            Origin/Culture/Country: Korean

Bang Seung-Hwan: is a South Korean football player who currently plays for FC Seoul. He previously played for Incheon United for five season beginning in 2004 and Jeju United.

Bang Dae-Du            Origin/Culture/Country: Korean

Bang Dae-Du: is a retired South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler.

Herman Joachim Bang            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Herman Joachim Bang: was a Danish author, one of the men of the Modern Breakthrough. He was twenty he published two volumes of critical essays on the realistic movement. In 1880 he published his novel Haabløse Slægter (Families Without Hope), which aroused immediate attention. The main character was a young man who had a relationship with an older woman. The book was considered obscene at the time and was banned. After some time spent in travel and a successful lecture tour of Norway and Sweden, he settled in Copenhagen and produced a series of novels and collections of short stories which placed him in the front rank of Scandinavian novelists. Among his more famous stories are Fædra (1883) and Tine (Tina, 1889). The latter won for its author the friendship of Henrik Ibsen and the enthusiastic admiration of Jonas Lie. Among his other works are Det hvide Hus (The White House, 1898), Excentriske Noveller (Eccentric Stories, 1885), Stille Eksistenser (Quiet Existences, 1886), Liv og Død (Life and Death, 1899), Englen Michael (The Angel Michael, 1902), a volume of poems (1889), and recollections, Ti Aar (Ten Years, 1891).

Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang: was a Danish veterinarian. Discovered Brucella abortus in 1897, which came to be known as Bang's bacillus. Bang's bacillus was the cause of the contagious Bang's disease (now known as Brucellosis) which can cause pregnant cattle to abort, and causes undulant fever in humans. Bang was awarded his M.D. in 1880 and began teaching at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark in Copenhagen. He later became the director of the College.