Gustav Behrend was a German dermatologist who was a native of Neustettin (today- Szczecinek, Poland).

In 1870 he received his medical doctorate at the University of Berlin, and during the Franco-Prussian War

Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...

 he served as an assistant at the Reserve Lazareth in Berlin. In 1882 he became a lecturer at Berlin

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, and in 1891 was appointed chief physician at the Municipal Dispensary for Sexual Diseases. In 1897 he received the title of professor.

Behrend specialized in the fields of dermatology

Dermatology

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 and syphilology, and also dealt with the subject of prostitution

Prostitution

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. He was the author of numerous publications, including a well-regarded textbook on skin diseases, titled Lehrbuch der Hautkrankheiten (1883). He also contributed numerous articles to Albert Eulenburg

Albert Eulenburg

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's Real-Encyclopädie der gesamten Heilkunde.

Selected written works

• Ueber Erythema Exsudativum Multiforme Universale, (1877)
• Pemphigus, Syphilis Hæmorrhagica etc., (1879)
• Ueber Pityriasis, zur Lehre von der Vererbung der Syphilis etc., (1881)
• Lehrbuch der Hautkrankheiten, (1883)
• Ueber Komplikation von Impetigo Contagiosa und Herpes Tonsurans, (1884)
• Wirkung des Lanolin bei Hautkrankheiten etc., (1886)
• Ueber Anthrarobin, (1888)
• Nervenläsion und Haarausfall, (1889)
• Ueber die Gonorrhoebehandlung Prostituirter, (1898)