Charité
| Charité – University Medicine Berlin | |
|---|---|
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| Motto | Forschen, Lehren, Heilen, Helfen |
Motto in English | Research, Teaching, Healing, Helping |
| Established | 1710 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | 1.3 billion € |
| Chairman | Karl Max Einhäupl |
Academic staff | 233 professors |
Administrative staff | 12,700 (including scientists, general hospital staff) |
| Students | 6,974 (in 2012) |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations |
Freie Universität Berlin Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Website | www.charite.de |
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the oldest and most prominent hospital and medical school in Berlin. Acting today as the medical school for both the Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin, Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe.[1] With numerous Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Charité is one of Germany's most research-intensive medical institutions.
History
Complying with an order of King Frederick I of Prussia from November 14, 1709, the hospital was established north of the Berlin city walls in 1710 in anticipation of an outbreak of the bubonic plague that had already depopulated East Prussia. After the plague spared the city, it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor. On January 9, 1727 Frederick William I of Prussia gave it the name Charité, meaning "charity".[2] The construction of an anatomical theatre in 1713 marks the beginning of the medical school, then supervised by the collegium medico-chirurgicum of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[3]
After the University of Berlin (today Humboldt University) had been founded in 1810, the dean of the medical college Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland integrated the Charité as a teaching hospital in 1828.
Organization
The Charité has four different campuses in total:
- Campus Mitte (CCM) in Berlin-Mitte
- Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF) in Berlin-Lichterfelde (formerly "Klinikum Steglitz")
- Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) in Berlin-Wedding
- Campus Berlin Buch (CBB) in Berlin-Buch
In 2001, the Helios Clinics Group acquired the clinics in Buch with its 1,200 beds and do not count to Charité anymore. Still, the Charité uses the campus for teaching and research and has more than 300 staff members located there. Organized in 17 different departments, which call themselves "Charité centers", the Charité encompasses more than 100 clinics and scientific institutes:
- CC 1: Health and Human Sciences
- CC 2: Basic Sciences (First Year)
- CC 3: Dental, Oral and Maxillary Medicine
- CC 4: Therapy and Research
- CC 5: Diagnostic Laboratory and Preventative Medicine
- CC 6: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
- CC 7: Anesthesiology, Opeating-Room Management and Intensive Care Medicine
- CC 8: Surgery
- CC 9: Traumatology and Reconstructive Medicine
- CC 10: Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center
- CC 11: Cardiovascular Diseases
- CC 12: Internal Medicine and Dermatology
- CC 13: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nephrology
- CC 14: Tumor Medicine
- CC 15: Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry
- CC 16: Audiology/Phoniatrics, Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
- CC 17: Gynecology, Perinatal, Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine with Perinatal Center & Human Genetics
13 of those centers focuses on patient care while the rest focuses on research and teaching. The Medical History Museum Berlin has a history dating from 1899, the museum in its current form opened in 1998 and is famous for its pathological and anatomical collection.*
Notable people
Many famous physicians and scientists worked or studied for at least part of their academic lives at the Charité.
Nobel laureates
- Emil Adolf von Behring – physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901)
- Ernst Boris Chain – biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945)
- Paul Ehrlich – immunologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908)
- Hermann Emil Fischer – chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902)
- Werner Forssmann – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956)
- Robert Koch – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905)
- Albrecht Kossel – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910)
- Sir Hans Adolf Krebs – physician and biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953)
- Fritz Albert Lipmann – biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953)
- Hans Spemann – embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935)
- Otto Heinrich Warburg – physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931)
Others
- Selmar Aschheim – gynecologist
- Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben – surgeon
- August Bier – surgeon
- Max Bielschowsky – neuropathologist
- Theodor Billroth – surgeon
- Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt – neurologist and neuropathologist
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach – surgeon
- Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs – pathologist
- Robert Froriep – anatomist
- Wilhelm Griesinger – psychiatrist and neurologist
- Hermann von Helmholtz – physician and physicist
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle – physician, pathologist and anatomist
- Eduard Heinrich Henoch – pediatrician
- Otto Heubner – pediatrician
- Rahel Hirsch – first female medical professor in Prussia
- Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn – psychiatrist
- Gero Hütter – hematologist
- Friedrich Jolly – neurologist and psychiatrist
- Friedrich Kraus – internist
- Bernhard von Langenbeck – surgeon
- Karl Leonhard – psychiatrist
- Hugo Karl Liepmann – neurologist and psychiatrist
- Leonor Michaelis – biochemist and physician
- Hermann Oppenheim – neurologist
- Samuel Mitja Rapoport – biochemist and physician
- Moritz Heinrich Romberg – neurologist
- Doreen Rosenstrauch – physician
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch – surgeon
- Curt Schimmelbusch – physician and pathologist
- Johann Lukas Schönlein – physician and pathologist
- Theodor Schwann – zoologist
- Ludwig Traube – physician and pathologist
- Rudolf Virchow – physician and pathologist
- Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal – neurologist and psychiatrist
- Carl Wernicke – neurologist
- August von Wassermann – bacteriologist
- Caspar Friedrich Wolff – physiologist
- Bernhard Zondek – endocrinologist
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charité. |
- Charité website
- Historical footage of the Charité, ca. 1920, filmportal.de
Coordinates: 52°31′36″N 13°22′47″E / 52.52667°N 13.37972°E