Eduard Mehlis

Eduard Carl Friedrich Mehlis (born June 5, 1796 in Clausthal ; † July 9, 1832 there ) was a German physician who became famous as a helminthologist .

Life

Mehlis was the son of the medical councilor Georg Mehlis (1764-1835), who worked in Clausthal, and his wife Sofie Henriette Siemens . From 1814 he studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . After completing a scientific trip and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. med. he became a mountain and city ​​physician in Clausthal. Later he took over the management of the local mountain and forest school . Mehlis founded the Natural History Cabinet in Clausthal and made a national name for himself as a helminthologist. In 1845 Mehlis discovered the Mehlis gland , which is named after him today , a gland in the genital system of flatworms .

Mehlis was married to Auguste Psyche Siemens (1802–63). His sister Sophie was married to Wilhelm Drumann , whose daughter Mathilde Drumann (1824–1865) married Werner Siemens in 1852 .

Publications

• Comentatio de morbis hominis dextri et sinistri. Goettingen 1818
• Obsevationes anatomicae de distomate hepatico et lanceolato. Goettingen 1825

literature

• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 67, No. 162
• New necrology of the Germans. Volume 10, Bernh. Fr. Voigt Verlag, Ilmenau 1834, p. 534 ( Google eBook )