The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine) is one of Europe's
largest university hospitals, affiliated with
Humboldt University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...
and
Free University Berlin
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. With numerous Collaborative Research Centres of the
German Research Foundation
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it is one of
Germany
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's most research-intensive medical institutions. From 2012 to 2022, it was ranked by ''
Focus
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'' as the best of over 1000 hospitals in Germany. In 2019 to 2022 ''
Newsweek
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'' ranked the Charité as the 5th best hospital in the world, and the best in Europe. More than half of all German Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, including
Emil von Behring
Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...
,
Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...
and
Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...
, have worked at the Charité. Several politicians and diplomats have been treated at the Charité, including
German Chancellor
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Angela Merkel
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, who underwent meniscus treatment at the Orthopaedic Department,
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();[Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...]
, and more recently Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny
Alexei Anatolievich Navalny ( rus, links=no, Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, , ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj; born 4 June 1976) is a Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, Russian opposition ...
, who received treatment at the hospital due to his
poisoning in August 2020.
In 2010–11 the medical schools of
Humboldt University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...
and
Freie Universität Berlin
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were united under the roof of the Charité. The admission rate of the reorganized medical school was 3.9% for the 2019–2020 academic year.
QS World University Rankings
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2019 ranked the Charité Medical School as number one for medicine in Germany and ninth best in Europe. It was also considered the best medical school in Germany by ''
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' 2021, being the eighth in Europe.
History
![Charité Standorte](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Charit%C3%A9_Standorte.svg)
Complying with an order of King
Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I (german: Friedrich I.; 11 July 1657 – 25 February 1713), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was (as Frederick III) Elector of Brandenburg (1688–1713) and Duke of Prussia in personal union ( Brandenburg-Prussia). The latter function h ...
from 14 November 1709, the hospital was established north of the Berlin city walls in 1710 in anticipation of an outbreak of the
bubonic plague
Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the plague bacterium (''Yersinia pestis''). One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms develop. These symptoms include fever, headaches, and vomiting, as well a ...
that had already depopulated
East Prussia
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. After the plague spared the city, it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor. On 9 January 1727, King
Frederick William I of Prussia
Frederick William I (german: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the "Soldier King" (german: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuch ...
gave it the name "Charité", French for "charity".
The construction of an
anatomical theatre
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in 1713 marks the beginning of the medical school, then supervised by the ''collegium medico-chirurgicum'' of the
Prussian Academy of Sciences
The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (german: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin ...
.
In the
19th century
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The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolis ...
, after the University of Berlin (today
Humboldt University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...
) was founded in 1810, the dean of the medical college
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland (12 August 1762, Langensalza – 25 August 1836, Berlin) was a German physician, naturopath and writer. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany and as the author of numero ...
integrated the Charité as a teaching hospital in 1828. During this time it became home to such notable medical pioneers as
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; or ; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder ...
, known as "the father of modern
pathology
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" and whose name is given to the eponymous "Virchow's Method" of autopsy;
the Swiss psychiatrist and neurologist
Otto Binswanger, whose work in vascular
dementia
Dementia is a disorder which manifests as a set of related symptoms, which usually surfaces when the brain is damaged by injury or disease. The symptoms involve progressive impairments in memory, thinking, and behavior, which negatively affe ...
led to the discovery of
Binswanger's Disease
Binswanger's disease, also known as subcortical leukoencephalopathy and subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy, is a form of small-vessel vascular dementia caused by damage to the white brain matter. White matter atrophy can be caused by man ...
—so coined by his colleague
Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer ( , , ; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepel ...
;
Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...
, who identified the specific causative agents of
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...
,
cholera
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, and
anthrax
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium ''Bacillus anthracis''. It can occur in four forms: skin, lungs, intestinal, and injection. Symptom onset occurs between one day and more than two months after the infection is contracted. The sk ...
; and
Emil von Behring
Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...
, widely known as a "saviour of children"
[ nobelprize.org ''(Retrieved by "The Internet Archive")''] for his 1894 discovery of a
diphtheria
Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium '' Corynebacterium diphtheriae''. Most infections are asymptomatic or have a mild clinical course, but in some outbreaks more than 10% of those diagnosed with the disease may die. Signs and s ...
antitoxin
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at a time when diphtheria was a major cause of child death (among many others).
In the
20th century
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January 1, 1901 ( MCMI), and ended on December 31, 2000 ( MM). The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era: Spanish flu pandemic, World War I and World War II, nuclear ...
, at the end of the
Second World War
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, the Charité had endured the
Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.
After the Vistula– ...
, with Berlin having been taken by the
Red Army
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on 2 May 1945. Though the majority of its original and pre-War structure was damaged or destroyed during the War, it nevertheless was used as a Red Army hospital. Subsequent to
Victory in Europe
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, in the period of
denazification
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and the
Nuremberg trials
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Between 1939 and 1945 ...
, the Charité remained in the
Soviet Sector
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of
Berlin
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until the formation of the
German Democratic Republic
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**Ger ...
, the GDR—''(
German
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**Ge ...
: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR)''—in 1949, more commonly called
East Germany
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. Under the
Communists
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, standards were largely maintained, and it became a showpiece for
East Bloc
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propaganda during the
Cold War
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. Corpses of
Berlin Wall
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victims were taken here for autopsies.
In 1990, with the
reunification of Germany
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, and in the years following, Charité once again became one of the world's leading research and teaching hospitals.
Organization
![B-Lichterfelde Hindenburgdamm Klinikum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/B-Lichterfelde_Hindenburgdamm_Klinikum.jpg)
The Charité has four different campuses across the city of Berlin with a total of 3,001 beds:
[
* Campus in Mitte, Berlin
* Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF) in Lichterfelde, Berlin
* Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) in Wedding, Berlin
* Campus Berlin Buch (CBB) in Buch, Berlin
In 2001, the Helios Clinics Group acquired the hospitals in Buch with their 1,200 beds. Still, the Charité continues to use the campus for teaching and research and has more than 300 staff members located there.
The Charité encompasses more than 100 ]clinic
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s and scientific institute
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In some countries, institutes can ...
s, organized in 17 different departments, referred to as ''Charité Centers'' (CC):
* CC 1: Health and Human Sciences
* CC 2: Basic Sciences (First Year)
* CC 3: Dental, Oral and Maxillary Medicine
* CC 4: Charité-BIH Center for Therapy Research
* CC 5: Diagnostic Laboratory and Preventative Medicine
* CC 6: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
* CC 7: Anesthesiology, Operating-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
Overall, 13 of those centers focus on patient care, while the rest focuses on research and teaching.
The ''Medical History Museum Berlin'' has a history dating back to 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 at the Charité. Indeed, more than half of the German Nobel Prize winners in medicine and physiology come from the Charité. Fifty seven Nobel laureates are affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
and five with Freie Universität Berlin
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.
* Selmar Aschheim
Selmar Aschheim (4 October 1878 – 15 February 1965) was a German gynecologist who was a native resident of Berlin.
Born into a Jewish family, in 1902 he received a doctorate of medicine in Freiburg, and later became director of the laboratory ...
(1878-1965) – gynecologist
* Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben (1819-1895) – surgeon
* Ernst von Bergmann
Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann (16 December 1836 – 25 March 1907) was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.
Biography
Bo ...
(1836-1907)- surgeon
* August Bier (1861-1949) – surgeon
* Max Bielschowsky
Max Israel Bielschowsky (20 February 1869 – 15 August 1940) was a German neuropathologist born in Breslau.
After receiving his medical doctorate from the University of Munich in 1893, he worked with Ludwig Edinger (1855–1918) at the ...
(1869-1940) – neuropathologist
* Theodor Billroth
Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 18296 February 1894) was a German surgeon and amateur musician.
As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery. As a musician, he was a close friend and conf ...
(1829-1894) – surgeon
* Otto Binswanger (1852-1929) - psychiatrist and neurologist
* Karl Bonhoeffer
Karl Bonhoeffer (; March 31, 1868 – December 4, 1948) was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and physician.
Life
Bonhoeffer was born in Neresheim in the Kingdom of Württemberg to Friedrich von Bonhoeffer (1828–1907), who worked as judg ...
(1868-1948) - neurologist
* Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist. Although he is typically credited as the physician to first describe the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this has been disputed. He was bor ...
(1885-1964) – neurologist and neuropathologist
* Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1 February 1792 – 11 November 1847) was a German surgeon. He was born in Königsberg and died in Berlin.
Dieffenbach specialized in skin transplantation and plastic surgery. His work in rhinoplastic and maxillof ...
(1792-1847) – surgeon
* Christian Drosten
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– virologist
* Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs – pathologist
* Robert Froriep
Robert Friedrich Froriep (2 February 1804 – 15 June 1861) was a German anatomist who was a native of Jena. He was the father of anatomist August von Froriep (1849–1917).
He studied medicine in Bonn, and later became prosector and conservator ...
– anatomist
* Wilhelm Griesinger
Wilhelm Griesinger (29 July 1817 – 26 October 1868) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart.
Life and career
He studied under Johann Lukas Schönlein at the University of Zurich and physiologist François Magendie in Pa ...
– psychiatrist and neurologist
* Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Association, ...
– physician and physicist
* Joachim Friedrich Henckel – surgeon
* Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for ...
– physician, pathologist and anatomist
* Eduard Heinrich Henoch
Eduard Heinrich Henoch (June 16, 1820 Berlin – August 26, 1910) was a German physician. He taught at the Berlin University (1868–1894). Henoch was of Jewish descent, and was the nephew of Moritz Heinrich Romberg.
Work
After taking th ...
– pediatrician
* Otto Heubner
Johann Otto Leonhard Heubner (January 21, 1843 – October 17, 1926) was a German internist and pediatrician who was a native of Mühltroff.
He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, and in 1867 became an assistant to Carl Reinhold Aug ...
– pediatrician
* Rahel Hirsch – first female medical professor in Prussia
* Erich Hoffmann
Erich Hoffmann (25 April 1868 – 8 May 1959) was a German dermatologist who was a native of Witzmitz, Pomerania.
He studied medicine at the Berlin Military Academy, and was later a professor at the Universities of Halle and Bonn.
Hoffmann ...
– dermatologist
* Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn – psychiatrist
* Gero Hütter
Gero Hütter (born 18 December 1968) is a German hematologist. Hütter and his medical team transplanted bone marrow deficient in a key HIV receptor to a leukemia patient, Timothy Ray Brown, who was also infected with human immunodeficiency virus ...
– hematologist
* Friedrich Jolly
Friedrich Jolly (24 November 1844 – 4 January 1904) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who was a native of Heidelberg, and the son of physicist Philipp von Jolly (1809–1884).
He studied medicine at University of Göttingen, Göttin ...
– neurologist and psychiatrist
* Friedrich Kraus – internist
* Bernhard von Langenbeck
Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck (9 November 181029 September 1887) was a German surgeon known as the developer of Langenbeck's amputation and founder of ''Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery''.
Life
He was born at Padingbüttel, and recei ...
– surgeon
* Karl Leonhard
Karl Leonhard (21 March 1904 – 23 April 1988) was a German psychiatrist who was a student and collaborator of Karl Kleist, who himself stood in the tradition of Carl Wernicke. With Kleist, he created a complex classification of psychotic illnesse ...
– psychiatrist
* Hugo Karl Liepmann
Hugo Karl Liepmann (April 9, 1863 – May 6, 1925) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Berlin, into a Jewish family.
Initially, he studied both chemistry and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig, obtaining his ...
– neurologist and psychiatrist
* Leonor Michaelis
Leonor Michaelis (16 January 1875 – 8 October 1949) was a German biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics in 1913, as well as for work on enzyme inhibition, pH and quinones.
E ...
– biochemist and physician
* Hermann Oppenheim
Hermann Oppenheim (1 January 1858 – 5 May 1919) was one of the leading neurologists in Germany.
Life and work
Oppenheim is the son of Juda Oppenheim (1824–1891), the long-time rabbi of the Warburg synagogue community , and his wife, Cäcil ...
– neurologist
* Samuel Mitja Rapoport
Samuel Mitja Rapoport (27 November 1912 – 7 July 2004) was a German Empire-born German university professor of biochemistry in East Germany. Of Jewish descent and a committed communist, he fled Austria after its annexation by Nazi Germany, and ...
– biochemist and physician
* Moritz Heinrich Romberg – neurologist
* Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (; 3 July 1875 – 2 July 1951) was a German surgeon. His major work was on the use of negative-pressure chambers for surgery.
Biography
Sauerbruch was born in Barmen (now a district of Wuppertal), Germany. He ...
– surgeon
* Curt Schimmelbusch
Curt Theodor Schimmelbusch (16 November 1860 – 2 August 1895) was a German physician and pathologist who invented the Schimmelbusch mask, for the safe delivery of anaesthetics to surgical patients. He was also a key figure in the development of ...
– physician and pathologist
* Johann Lukas Schönlein
Johann Lukas Schönlein (30 November 1793 – 23 January 1864) was a German naturalist, and professor of medicine, born in Bamberg. He studied medicine at Landshut, Jena, Göttingen, and Würzburg. After teaching at Würzburg and Zurich, he was ...
– physician and pathologist
* Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann (; 7 December 181011 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist. His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals. Other contributions include the discovery of ...
– zoologist
* Ludwig Traube Ludwig Traube may refer to:
*Ludwig Traube (physician) (1818–1876), German physician and co-founder of experimental pathology in Germany
*Ludwig Traube (palaeographer) (1861–1907), his son, German paleographer
{{hndis, Traube, Ludwig ...
– physician and pathologist
* Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (; or ; 13 October 18215 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder ...
– physician, founder of cell theory and modern pathology
* Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (23 March 1833, in Berlin – 27 January 1890, in Kreuzlingen) was a German psychiatrist from Berlin. He was the son of Otto Carl Friedrich Westphal (1800–1879) and Karoline Friederike Heine and the father of Alexa ...
– neurologist and psychiatrist
* Carl Wernicke
Carl (or Karl) Wernicke (; ; 15 May 1848 – 15 June 1905) was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is known for his influential research into the pathological effects of specific forms of encephalopathy and also ...
– neurologist
* August von Wassermann – bacteriologist
* Caspar Friedrich Wolff
Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.
Life
Wolff was born in Berlin, Brandenburg. In 1759 he graduated as an M.D. from the University of Halle with his diss ...
– physiologist
* Bernhard Zondek
Bernhard Zondek ( he, ברנרד צונדק; 29 July 1891 – 8 November 1966) was a German-born Israeli gynecologist who developed the first reliable pregnancy test in 1928.
Biography
Bernhard Zondek was born in Wronke, Germany, now Wronki, Po ...
– endocrinologist
Nobel laureates
* Emil Adolf von Behring
Emil von Behring (; Emil Adolf von Behring), born Emil Adolf Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery ...
– physiologist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901)''
* Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
Life and career
Chain was born in Ber ...
– biochemist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945)''
* Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...
– immunologist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908)''
* Hermann Emil Fischer
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of dra ...
– chemist ''(Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902)''
* Werner Forssmann
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for ...
– physician ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956)''
* Robert Koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...
– physician ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905)''
* Albrecht Kossel
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel (; 16 September 1853 – 5 July 1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his work in determining the ch ...
(1853-1927) – physician ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910)''
* Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) – physician and biochemist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953)''
* Fritz Albert Lipmann
Fritz Albert Lipmann (; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in ...
(1899-1986) – biochemist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953)''
* Hans Spemann
Hans Spemann (; 27 June 1869 – 9 September 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence ...
(1869-1941) – embryologist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935)''
* Otto Heinrich Warburg
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(1883-1970) – physiologist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931)''
Medical school
In 2003 the Berlin city and state House of Representatives passed an interim law unifying the medical faculties of both Humboldt University
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...
and Freie Universität Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
under the roof of the Charité. Since 2010–11 all new medical students have been enrolled on the New Revised Medical Curriculum Programme with a length of 6 years. Referred to the points needed in the German Abitur
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to get directly accepted, the Charité is together with Heidelberg University Medical School Germany's most competitive medical school (2020). 3,17% of all Charité Medical School students are supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the highest percentage of all public German universities. The Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...
Exchange Programme offered to Charité Medical School students includes 72 universities and is the largest in Europe. Charité students can spend up to a year at a foreign medical school with exchange partners such as the Karolinska Institute
The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...
, University of Copenhagen
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, Sorbonne University
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, Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...
, Università di Roma La Sapienza, University of Amsterdam
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, and the University of Zürich
The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...
. Students are also encouraged to participate in research projects, complete a dissertation, or join Charité affiliated social projects.
In 2021, the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) became the translational research unit of Charité, marking a change in the German university system by making the Charité the first university clinic which receive direct and annual financial support by the federal state of Germany. Together with private charity donors like the Johanna Quandt's private excellence initiative or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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, as well as financing by the State of Berlin
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, the new direct federal investments will become the third financial fundament for research at the Charité. In addition, it is part of the Berlin University Alliance
The Berlin University Alliance is a consortium of three universities and one hospital in Berlin: the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin, and the Charité – Berlin University of Med ...
, receiving funding from the German Universities Excellence Initiative
The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperatio ...
in 2019.
International partner universities
* UK: Oxford University
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* UK: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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The inst ...
* US: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore
* US: Northwestern University, Chicago
* Canada: Université de Montréal
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* Australia: Monash University, Melbourne
* Japan: Chiba University
is a national university in the city of Chiba, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University. The university was formed in 1949 from exist ...
* Japan: Saitama Medical School
is a private university at Moroyama, Saitama
is a town located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 33,178 in 15,888 households and a population density of 970 persons per km². The total area of the town is . ...
* Brazil: Universidade de São Paulo
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* China: Tongji University
Tongji University () is a comprehensive public research university located in Shanghai. Established in 1907 by the German government together with German physicians in Shanghai, Tongji is one of the longest-standing, most selective, and most pr ...
, Shanghai
* China: Tongji Medical College
Tongji Medical College (TJMC, ) is a medical school in Wuhan, China. Formerly Tongji Medical University (), it became part of the newly established Huazhong University of Science and Technology ( HUST) in 2000. More than 10 graduates of the m ...
, Wuhan
Einstein Foundation
The Charité is one of the main partners of the Einstein Foundation, which was established by the city and state of Berlin in 2009. It is a "foundation that aims to promote science and research of top international caliber in Berlin and to establish the city as a centre of scientific excellence". Research fellows include:
* Thomas Südhof
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* Thomas the ...
– biochemist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013)''
* Brian Kobilka
Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in ...
– chemist ''(Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012)''
* Edvard Moser
Edvard Ingjald Moser (; born 27 April 1962) is a Norwegian professor of psychology and neuroscience at thKavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In 2005, he and May-Brit ...
– neuroscientist ''(Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014)''
Television
* ''Charité
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine) is one of Europe's largest university hospitals, affiliated with Humboldt University and Free University Berlin. With numerous Collaborative Research Cen ...
'' (Season 1, take place in 1888)
* ''Charité at War
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine) is one of Europe's List of hospitals by capacity, largest university hospitals, affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt University and Fre ...
'', (Season 2, takes place between 1943 and 1945)
* '' Charité "In the shadow of the wall"'' (Season 3, takes place in 1961)
See also
* List of university hospitals in Germany
References
External links
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Universities and colleges in Berlin
1710 establishments in Prussia
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Teaching hospitals in Germany
Medical schools in Germany
Medical and health organisations based in Berlin