Karl August von Bergen

He attended the Gymnasium in his home town of Frankfurt an der Oder, he later studied medicine at the local Viadrina University from 1727.

[1] He continued his studies at the University of Leiden, where he worked for the professors Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), Bernhard Siegfried Albinus.

His duties included the care of the Botanical Garden, which had been founded in 1678 by Johann Christoph Bekmann.

After Susanna's early death he remarried on 29 September 1749 her sister, Mary Elizabeth Rhode.

Among his more unusual works is an essay on the rhinoceros: Oratio de rhinocerote, quam habuit cum tertium deponeret rectoratum, Frankfurt (Oder), 1746.