Edmund Meyer
Edmund Viktor Meyer (born October 30, 1864 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1931 ibid) was a German physician ( laryngology ) and professor at the University of Berlin .
Meyer was the son of a lawyer and judiciary. In 1902 he became an associate professor for laryngology at the University of Berlin. Meyer wrote the section Diseases of the Upper Airways in Volume 1 of the Handbook of Internal Medicine (1st edition 1914 and second edition).
Part of the control cartilage is named after him in English.
He was Jewish and married to Elise Levy. She committed 1916 suicide (she suffered from depression and was by her husband cheated ). Meyer married Rosalie Levin, née Heimann, on April 19, 1923. In 1931 both committed suicide. His son from his first marriage, Max Meyer (1890–1954), was also a professor of laryngology (in Würzburg ); During the Nazi era , he emigrated to Turkey and Iran . The daughter Hildegard (1891–1961) married the lawyer Walter Schmidt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to the sound archive of the Humboldt University Berlin , entry Edmund Meyer
- ^ Obituary in The Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor , Volume 21, 1931, p. 588
- ^ Anton Sebastian, A dictionary of the history of medicine, Parthenon Publ. 1999, Meyer cartilage
- ↑ Christoph Schmidt, A voyage in an enchanted house: a family history from the personal perspective, in: Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, Guy Miron (eds.), Jewish Historiography Between Past and Future: 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judaism, Studia Judaica 102, De Gruyter 2019
- ^ Entry by Max Meyer in the Biographical Handbook of German-speaking Emigration after 1933–1945 , KG Saur
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Edmund Viktor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor (laryngology) and professor at the University of Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1931 |
| Place of death | Berlin |