Uncover the captivating history of Berlin’s Charité Hospital on a walking tour. Explore 300 years of triumphs, tragedies, and political manipulation in the world of medical science.
Uncover the captivating history of Berlin’s Charité Hospital on a walking tour. Explore 300 years of triumphs, tragedies, and political manipulation in the world of medical science.
- Robert-Koch Denkmal - Learn about the founding of the Charité hospital, Berlin’s oldest, established in the 18th century. Visit the monument of Robert Koch, the Nobel laureate who identified the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera, and was involved in the first pharmaceutical scandal in medical history.
- Tieranatomisches Theater -…
- Robert-Koch Denkmal - Learn about the founding of the Charité hospital, Berlin’s oldest, established in the 18th century. Visit the monument of Robert Koch, the Nobel laureate who identified the causes of tuberculosis, anthrax, and cholera, and was involved in the first pharmaceutical scandal in medical history.
- Tieranatomisches Theater - Discover Berlin’s oldest surviving academic building, an 18th-century neoclassical treasure where veterinarians studied animal diseases. Listen to stories of how diseases were managed before the scientific era.
- Denkmal Rudolf Virchow - Discover the legacy of Rudolf Virchow, the pioneer of modern pathology and the founder of social medicine.
- Denkmal Albrecht von Graefe - Visit Berlin’s first monument dedicated to a scientist and learn about Albrecht von Graefe, a pioneering ophthalmologist.
- Charité Campus Mitte - Explore the stunning neo-Gothic red-brick campus. Learn about the doctors who misused medicine during the Third Reich and those who treated everyone equally until the end of WWII.
- Design Offices Berlin Humboldthafen - Discover the site where several East Berliners attempted to swim across the city canal to the West, just outside the Charité campus. Hear stories of hospital life during the socialist era and after the Berlin Wall fell.
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- Visiting buildings in which clinical or university operations take place.
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The history of Charité, Berlin’s oldest hospital, spans both the promise and betrayal of medical science. It is the story of the struggle to understand disease and also of what happens when a hateful ideology turns doctors into executioners. Although its beautiful red-brick campus feels like a world of its own, the Charité has not been immune to the…
The history of Charité, Berlin’s oldest hospital, spans both the promise and betrayal of medical science. It is the story of the struggle to understand disease and also of what happens when a hateful ideology turns doctors into executioners. Although its beautiful red-brick campus feels like a world of its own, the Charité has not been immune to the whims of the powers ruling Berlin and has been the political instrument of Nazis and East Germany alike. On this walking tour, we will dissect 300 years of success, failure, and everything in between.
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