Georg Karl Berendt

Georg Karl Berendt (1790 to 1850) was a German physician and paleontologist from Danzig. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Königsberg and practised medicine in Danzig from 1814. He is remembered for his large collection of amber inclusions, some 4,216 specimens of plants, insects, arachnids, myriapods and other organisms preserved in Baltic amber, now housed at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. With the paleobotanist Heinrich Göppert he published a work on the plant remains found in amber in 1845, and in 1854 the entomologist Carl Ludwig Koch based a treatise on the myriapods, arachnids and wingless insects of amber on material from his collection. He was the father of Karl Hermann Berendt.