Karl August von Bergen

Karl August von Bergen (11 August 1704 in Frankfurt (Oder) – 7 October 1759 in ibid.) was a German anatomist and botanist.

Life

Karl August von Bergen was the son of anatomy professor Johann Georg von Bergen (died 1738).

He attended the Gymnasium in his home town of Frankfurt an der Oder and later studied medicine at the local Viadrina University from 1727. There, he was taught by his father and by the anatomist Andreas Ottomar Goelicke (1670–1744).

He continued his studies at the University of Leiden, where he studied under Professors Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus.

He also studied in Paris and Strasbourg. He returned to Viadrina University, received his doctorate in medicine in 1732, and took a post as a professor at the university.

On 2 April 1739, he married Susanna Elizabeth Rhode. They had four children. After Susanna's early death, he remarried her sister, Mary Elizabeth Rhode, on 29 September 1749.

His most noted work is Flora Francofurtana, published in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1750. Among his more unusual works is an essay on the rhinoceros: Oratio de rhinocerote, quam habuit cum tertium deponeret rectoratum, published in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1746. Oratio de rhinocerote, quam habuit cum tertium deponeret rectoratum, Frankfurt (Oder), 1746 Flora Francofurtana, Frankfurt (Oder), published in 1750 Dissertatio Botanica De Aloide, published 1753 Classes conchyliorum, Published 1760