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German physician; born at Neu-Stettin, Pomerania, June 12, 1803; died at Berlin May 30, 1889. He was educated for a mercantile career, and became a clerk at K�nigsberg, East Prussia, in 1819, but resigned the position in 1821 to prepare himself for his academic studies. In 1823 he entered the University of K�nigsberg, and three years later was graduated as doctor of medicine. Spending the following two years in travel, he settled as physician in Berlin in 1829. There he was employed by the city department of police as medical examiner of prostitutes, becoming in 1876 chief physician of the "Sittenpolizei," with the title of "Geheimer Sanit�tsrath."

Behrend was the editor of the following medical works and journals: (at first with Moldenhauer, later alone) "Allgemeines Repertorium der Medizinisch-Chirurgischen Journalistik des Auslandes," 22 vols., Berlin, 1829-35; "Bibliothek von Vorlesungen der Vorz�glichsten und Ber�hmtesten Jetzt Lebenden Aerzte, Wund�rzte und Geburtshelfer des Auslandes �ber Medizin, Chirurgie, und Geburtshilfe," 23 vols., Leipsic, 1833-41; "Syphilidologie oder die Neuesten Erfahrungen, Beobachtungen, und Fortschritte des Inlandes und Auslandes �ber die Erkenntniss und Behandlung der Venerischen Krankheiten," Leipsic, 1838-40; (with A. Hildebrandt) "Journal f�r Kinderkrankheiten," Berlin and Erlangen, 1843-72; (with Henke) "Zeitschrift f�r Staatsarzneikunde," 1850-64.

He was also the author of the following books: (1) "Ikonographische Darstellung der Nichtsyphilitischen Hautkrankheiten," Leipsic, 1839; (2) "Ikonographische Darstellung der Beinbr�che und Verrenkungen," Leipsic, 1845; (3) "Prostitution in Berlin und die Gegen die Syphilis zu Nehmenden Massregeln," Erlangen, 1850; (4) "Die Oeffentlichen B�der und Waschanstalten, Ihr Nutzen und Ihr Ertrag," ib. 1854; (5) "Die Kanalisirung der Stadt Berlin in Gesundheitlicher Beziehung," Berlin, 1866.

Further, Behrend has contributed many essays to Rust's "Magazine," Hufeland's "Journal der Praktischen Arznei und Wundarzneikunde," Henke's "Zeitschrift f�r die Staatsarzneikunde," etc., and translated medical works of foreign countries.