Karl August von Bergen

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Karl August von Bergen , also Carl August von Bergen - Latinized Carolus Augustus de Bergen (born August 11, 1704 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † October 7, 1759 ibid) was a German anatomist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bergen ".

Life

Title page of Flora Francofurtana , 1750

Karl August von Bergen was the son of the anatomy professor Johann Georg von Bergen († April 27, 1738). After attending the Friedrichsschule (grammar school) in his home town of Frankfurt (Oder), he first studied medicine at the Viadrina . He was tutored there by his father and the anatomist Andreas Ottomar Goelicke . The 19-year-old von Bergen continued his studies in 1727 at the University of Leiden , where he learned from professors Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738), Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and s'Gravesende. From 1729 he trained with the surgeon Benedictus Boudon in Paris and then went to Strasbourg to study with Johannes Salzmann (1679–1738) and Heinrich Albert Nicolai (1701–1733). In 1730 he returned to Frankfurt (Oder), where he received his doctorate in medicine on July 13, 1731 with his examination De nervo intercostali , and from 1732 taught as an adjunct professor at the Viadrina. After the death of his father, he received his chair for anatomy and botany. Since then, his responsibilities have included looking after the botanical garden , which was founded in 1678 by Johann Christoph Bekmann (1641–1717).

When his former teacher, Prof. Goelicke, died in 1744, he also took over his subjects, pathology and therapy .

Title page and panel 1 of the Oratio de rhinocerote , 1746

In addition to numerous medical publications, von Bergen also dealt with botanical and zoological topics. He wrote a Flora Francofurtana , Frankfurt (Oder), 1750. One of his most curious works is an essay on the rhinoceros: Oratio de rhinocerote, quam habuit cum tertium deponeret rectoratum , Frankfurt (Oder), 1746.

family

On April 2, 1739, he married Susanna Elisabeth Rhode. He had four children with her. After Susanna's early death, on September 29, 1749, he married her sister, Maria Elisabeth Rhode. His sister Luise von Bergen († 1746) married the Berlin pastor Johann Hermann Gronau .

Honors

On August 12, 1752 he was elected member ( matriculation no. 575 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Philaretus II .

The botanist Conrad Moench named the plant genus Bergenia ( Bergenia ) in honor of Karl August von Bergen.

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri , Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 515 digitized
  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Vol. 2. Paris, 1820.
  • Klaus Eichler: History of the Medical Faculty . Annual report No. 1 of the Association for Research into the History of Viadrina eV Frankfurt (Oder), 1998.
  • August Hirsch:  Bergen, Karl August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 367 f.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 221 digitized
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 161 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Carl August von Bergen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bergen, Karl August von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anatomist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1759
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)