Charité
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The Charité is the largest university hospital in Europe. The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Initially build in 1710 in Berlin-Mitte for an expected coming of the bubonic plague it was never used as a "Pest Haus". In 1727 Frederick William I of Prussia named it Charité.
Many famous physicians, scientists and others worked at least for some time of their career at the Charité. Among them were:
Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben, Emil Adolf von Behring, August Bier, Theodor Billroth, Hans Erhard Bock, Karl Bonhoeffer, Hermann Emil Fischer, Werner Forssmann, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, Paul Ehrlich, Wilhelm Griesinger, Hermann von Helmholtz, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Herbert Herxheimer, Rahel Hirsch, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Robert Koch, Bernhard von Langenbeck, Leonor Michaelis, Rudolf Nissen, Hermann Oppenheim, Samuel Mitja Rapoport, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Curt Schimmelbusch, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Heinrich Schulte, Theodor Schwann, Walter Stoeckel, Rudolf Virchow, August von Wassermann, Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Selmar Aschheim and Bernhard Zondek.
Today the Charité is anually treating 125,000 inpatients and 900,000 outpatients, in 3,500 beds with 15,000 employees teaching 8,000 students and is distributed on four locations in Berlin:
- Campus Berlin Buch (CBB) in Berlin-Buch
- Campus Benjamin Franklin (CBF) in Berlin-Steglitz
- Charité Campus Mitte (CCM) in Berlin-Mitte
- Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) in Berlin-Wedding
Strictly speaking, the locations in Mitte, Steglitz and Wedding form independent medical centers, which cover everyone for themselves virtually every field of modern medicine and the entire medical treatment spectrum with all departments and institutes. However, special research and therapy emphasis exist, e.g. the German Cardiology Center Berlin (German: Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, DHZB) at the Campus Virchow Klinikum, the Center for Outer Space Medicine at the Campus Benjamin Franklin, the German Rheumatology Research Center at the Campus Charité Mitte or also the Center for Molecular and Clinical Cardiology at the Campus Berlin Buch. The DHZB possesses the largest heart transplantion program in Germany and after London and Paris the third largest world-wide.
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