Carl Adolph von Basedow (28 March 1799 – 11 April 1854) was a German physician most famous for reporting the symptoms of what could later be dubbed Graves-Basedow disease, now technically known as exophthalmic goiter.

He married early and became the town's chief medical officer, a position he would hold for the rest of his life.

In 1840, Basedow reported on the conditions of what is now called Graves-Basedow disease.

He died in Merseburg in 1854 after contracting spotted fever from a corpse he was dissecting.

The term "Basedow’s disease" was suggested by Georg Hirsch in his Klinische Fragmente.