Carl August Wilhelm Berends

Carl August Wilhelm Berends (April 19, 1759 – December 1, 1826) was a German physician born in Anklam, Pomerania.

Commemorative Plaque of Carl Berends, Studentendorf Mühlenweg- Frankfurt (Oder)

He studied medicine at Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder, where in 1788 he became a professor of medicine. In 1811 he moved to the University of Breslau, being due to closure of Viadrina University in Frankfurt, and resulting in the relocation of much of its faculty to Breslau. In 1815 he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Berlin and hospital director at the Berlin Charité.

In 1789 Berends published Über den Unterricht junger Ärzte am Krankenbett (Education of Young Physicians at the Bedside), in which he described his experiences at the Thielschen Krankenhaus in Frankfurt. Shortly after his death in 1826, his one-time student, Karl Sundelin, published Berends' lectures on practical medical science ("Vorlesungen über die praktische Arzneiwissenschaft").