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He was "lethargic and indecisive" during the fateful Battle of Waterloo, on 18 June 1815 that put an end to his rule.Soerensen has dedicated his life to studying the French emperor's health to debunk the myth that he was poisoned by his enemies or suffered from stomach cancer.
Sitting in his library where more than 500 books about Napoleon line the walls, this kidney expert who became a big name in dialysis in Europe in the 1960s, says he wants to "correct" history.
In the latest twist in a long-running medical saga, Soerensen wrote in a new book "Napoleon's nyrer" (Napoleon's kidneys) published in May that the deposed emperor died at 51 of kidney and urinary problems that afflicted him for many years.
"I'm not a historian, I'm a doctor who's passionate about history and I have studied Napoleon's health from his childhood until his death," Soerensen says, casting a glance at portraits of Napoleon and his wife Josephine that hang on the wall.
The doctor, 82, explains that he has been fascinated by Napoleon for most of his life, "even if Denmark lost some of its territory and went bankrupt by being his ally."
From the time he finished his medical studies until now, Soerensen has "bought or borrowed a total of around 2,000 books on Napoleon," spending an average of "three to four hours a day studying them".
At his cottage in Aalborg, he shows off his "priceless treasure": his stack of papers with notes scrawled by hand "each time I read a book".
His wife Birte "patiently transcribed the notes on the computer for years," he says.
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