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Jan Bondeson
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1962
Jan Bondeson is a Swedish-British rheumatologist, scientist and author, working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine. He has also written non-fiction on topics such as medical anomalies and unsolved murders. In 2003 he told an interviewer, "I've always had a profound interest in history, especially the history of medicine, and a bit of a fancy for the macabre and odd." Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed 50 women in the buttocks, of Edward "the Boy" Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave.
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About Jan Bondeson
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1962
Jan Bondeson is a Swedish-British rheumatologist, scientist and author, working as a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the Cardiff University School of Medicine. He has also written non-fiction on topics such as medical anomalies and unsolved murders. In 2003 he told an interviewer, "I've always had a profound interest in history, especially the history of medicine, and a bit of a fancy for the macabre and odd." Bondeson is the biographer of a predecessor of Jack the Ripper, the London Monster, who stabbed 50 women in the buttocks, of Edward "the Boy" Jones, who stalked Queen Victoria and stole her underwear, and Greyfriars Bobby, a Scottish terrier who supposedly spent 14 years guarding his master's grave.
Jan Bondeson balances his work as a rheumatologist and university lecturer with a prolific writing career.
His most notable work, The London Monster, explores the history of a mysterious 18th-century assailant.
He has published twenty books focusing on medical anomalies, unsolved crimes, and historical curiosities.
His fascination with the macabre and the odd has led him to investigate peculiar historical figures like Queen Victoria's stalker.
As a physician and scientist, he brings a unique analytical rigor to his accounts of mysteries and anecdotes from the past.
