Carl August Wilhelm Berends

Carl August Wilhelm Berends ( born April 19, 1754 Anklam, † December 1, 1826 in Berlin) was a German physician. He was from 1815 director 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. He took over in 1786 the Office of the Leech in a circle Lebus, and two years later he returned as a full professor at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) back. In this time the criticism of Berends at Frankfurt Thiel 's hospital, he complained of as being too small for its only eight beds falls. A larger, however, was not built until much later in 1835. In 1789 he published his work, On the teaching of young doctors on the hospital bed, based on his experiences in the said hospital.

After the university was closed in Frankfurt after the Peace of Tilsit, he went as rector of the new Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau. 1815 appointed him to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Head of the Berlin Charité. In Berlin, he died in 1826. Upon his death appeared under Berends ' name the nine -volume work manual intestine disease. The publication contradicted his testamentary will, in which he had decreed that all of its written records were destroyed. The first two volumes were published in 1827 by his pupil Karl Sundelin.

Works

• About the teaching of young doctors at the bedside. 1789
• About the uncertainty of the hallmarks of death, with respect to the corporate end in late pregnant women to cesarean section.
• Manual Internal Diseases.