title: Basedow
text: # Basedow
  
  Basedow may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Basedow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the district of Demmin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
  * Basedow, Schleswig-Holstein, in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  
  ## People
  
  * Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790), German educational reformer
  * John Basedow, American television personality and motivational speaker
  * Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799-1854), German doctor who described the Graves-Basedow disease
  * Martin Basedow (1829–1902), Australian teacher, newspaper proprietor and politician
  * Herbert Basedow (1881–1933), Australian anthropologist, geologist, explorer and medical practitioner
  * Rainer Basedow (1938-2022), German film, television, and voice actor
  
  ## Other
  
  * Graves' disease, in continental Europe called Graves-Basedow or just Basedow disease and informally shortened just to "Basedow"
  