Carl August Wilhelm Berends

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Dr. CAW Berends, engraving by Friedrich Bolt (1823)
Memorial plaque in Frankfurt (Oder)

Carl August Wilhelm Berends (born April 19, 1759 in Anklam ; † December 1, 1826 in Berlin ) was a German medic . From 1815 he was head of the Berlin Charité .

Life

Berends began his studies at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , later he continued it in Vienna. In 1780 he received his doctorate in medicine and shortly thereafter in philosophy. In 1786 he took over the post of physicist in the Lebus district , and two years later he returned to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) as a full professor. During this time Berends criticized the Thielschen Hospital in Frankfurt , which he complained about as being too small because of its only eight beds. A larger one was not built until much later, around 1835. In 1789 he published his book On the teaching of young doctors before the bedside , based on his experiences in the hospital mentioned.

On February 6, 1793, he was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His academic epithet was Polydorus I .

After the university in Frankfurt was closed after the Treaty of Tilsit , he went to the new Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau as rector . In 1815 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III appointed him . as head of the Berlin Charité. In 1818/19 Berends was Goethe's doctor in Karlsbad . He died in Berlin in 1826. After his death, the nine-volume manual Inner Diseases appeared under Berends' name . The publication contradicted his will in his will, in which he had ordered that all his written records should be destroyed. The first two volumes were published in 1827 by his student Karl Sundelin .

Fonts

  • About bedside teaching for young doctors . 1789
  • About the uncertainty of the marks of death with regard to the caesarean section to be performed on deceased pregnant women .
  • Handbook of Internal Diseases .

literature

  • Klaus Eichler: 185 years ago, Professor Carl August Wilhelm Berends took over the management of the Charité in Berlin . In: Mitteilungen Frankfurt (Oder), Historischer Verein zu Frankfurt (Oder) e. V. , 2000, No. 2, pp. 46-47.
  • August Hirsch :  Berends, Carl August Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 356.

Web links

Commons : Carl August Wilhelm Berends  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Karl August Wilhelm Berends at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 240
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  4. ↑ Effi Biedrzynski : Goethe's Weimar. The lexicon of people and scenes. Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-7608-1064-0 , p. 155.
personal data
SURNAME Berends, Carl August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, head of the Charité
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1826
Place of death Berlin