Conrad Meyer-Ahrens
Conrad Meyer-Ahrens also Conrad Meyer (born April 30, 1813 in Zurich ; † December 21, 1872 ) was a Swiss medical historian, balneologist , doctor and writer.
Life
His father Hans Conrad was a merchant and city councilor, his mother Susanna was born Bürkli. After visiting the schools in his hometown, he came to Trogen AR where Hermann Krüsi ran the canton school. He got to know and appreciate nature on numerous excursions. After a three-year course at the Medicin Surgical Institute in Zurich, he studied anatomy and physiology in Berlin from 1833 under Johannes Müller . His dissertation was published in 1835 under the title De fissuris hominis mammaliumque congenitis .
In 1853 he returned to Zurich with his wife Wilhelmine, who came from Berlin, and opened a medical practice, which ultimately did not bring him the satisfaction he had expected. So he turned more and more to writing. At first it was primarily medical-historical work, then from 1850 a phase of balneological works followed (e.g. The healing springs and health resorts of Switzerland. Described in historical, topographical, chemical and therapeutic relationships . Zurich, Orell, Füssli & Comp., 1860) . In 1872 he worked together with his colleague friend Joseph Wiel on his last work, the little travel guide Bonndorf and Steinamühle, which was published by Binder in Bonndorf in 1873.
Web links
- Literature by and about Conrad Meyer-Ahrens in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Christoph Mörgeli : Meyer, Conrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer-Ahrens, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Conrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss medical historian, balneologist, doctor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1872 |
| Place of death | Zurich |