Karl August von Bergen
Karl August von Bergen ( born August 11, 1704 Frankfurt ( Oder), † October 7, 1759 ) was a German anatomist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " mountains ".
Life
Karl August von Bergen was the son of Anatomy Professor Johann Georg von Bergen ( † April 27, 1738 ). After visiting the Frederick school (Gymnasium) in his hometown of Frankfurt ( Oder), he studied medicine at the Viadrina. He was taught there by his father and by the anatomist Andreas Ottomar Goelicke ( 1670-1744 ). The 19 -year-old from Bergen continued his studies in 1727 at Leiden University, where he studied with Professors Hermann Boerhaave ( 1668-1738 ), Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and s'Gravesende. From 1729 he continued his education at the surgeon Benedictus Boudon in Paris and then went to Strasbourg to study with John Salzmann ( 1679-1738 ) and Heinrich Albert Nicolai ( 1701-1733 ). In 1730 he returned to Frankfurt ( Oder) back, was there with his doctorate study De nervo intercostali on July 13, 1731 as a doctor of medicine and taught from 1732 as an adjunct professor at the Viadrina. After his father's death, he received the chair of anatomy and botany. His responsibilities included the supervision since the Botanical Garden, which was founded in 1678 by Johann Christoph Bekmann ( 1641-1717 ).
As in 1744, his former teacher, Prof. Goelicke died, he took over his subjects, pathology and therapy.
In addition to numerous medical publications dealt by mountains with botanical and zoological topics. He wrote a flora francofurtana, Frankfurt ( Oder), 1750 His curious work includes an essay on the rhino. Oratio de rhinocerote, quam cum habuit tertium deponeret rectoratum, Frankfurt ( Oder), 1746.
Family
On April 2, 1739, he closed his marriage with Susanna Elisabeth Rhode. With her he had four children. After Susanna's early death he married on September 29, 1749 her sister, Maria Elisabeth Rhode. His daughter Louise of Bergen ( † 1746 ), married the Berlin pastor Johann Hermann Gronau.