Friedrich Ludwig Meissner

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Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (born August 25, 1796 in Leipzig , †  December 4, 1860 in Dresden ) was a German physician specializing in obstetrics, gynecological diseases and childhood diseases.

Life

Meissner studied medicine in his hometown. In 1819 he received his doctorate (title of the inaugural dissertation : Animadversiones nonnullas ad doctrinam de secundinis ac de superfoetatione ), and from the summer semester of 1821 he taught at the University of Leipzig . In 1831 he qualified as a professor for obstetrics and gynecological diseases. In 1838 he founded an obstetric polyclinic. He had been a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig since 1820 , where he was Master of the Chair from 1835 to 1851 .

His son Emil Apollo Meissner (1827-1884) took over his father's practice in Leipzig as his successor.

Fonts (selection)

  • About the polyps in the various cavities of the human body . Reclam, Leipzig 1820 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Marie Anne Boivin : About a very common and as yet little known cause of abortion, together with a memorandum about the intro-pelvimeter or internal pelvic knife; crowned by the Royal Society of Medicinal Sciences at Bordeaux . Translated and annotated by Friedrich Ludwig Meissner. Leipzig, 1829.
  • The latest trends in women’s diseases. Leipzig 1842.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Paul Diepgen : The Elixir: The Most Delicious of Medicines. CH Boehringer Sohn, Ingelheim am Rhein 1951, p. 39.