Georg Meissner

Professor Meissner

Georg Meissner (born November 19, 1829 in Hanover , † March 30, 1905 in Göttingen ) was a German anatomist and physiologist .

Georg Meissner studied medicine and natural sciences in Göttingen, Berlin and Munich from 1849. In 1852 he received his doctorate in medicine.

Meissner was a full professor of anatomy and physiology in Basel from 1855 , physiology and zoology in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1857 and in Göttingen from 1860 , where he took over the management of the Physiological Institute until 1900. In 1860 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1869 he was elected as a full member of the mathematical-physical class of the Göttingen Society of Sciences . He was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He discovered the submucosal plexus (also Meissner's plexus ), which is involved in regulating intestinal activity as a network of nerves, and in 1852 together with Rudolf Wagner the Meissner corpuscles (tactile corpuscles of the skin).

He also worked on protein metabolism .

Fonts

• About the presence of hitherto unknown peculiar tactile corpuscles (corpuscula tactus) in the sensory protuberances of the human skin, and about the terminal expansion of sensitive nerves. In: News from the Georg August University and the Royal Society of Sciences. Göttingen 1852, pp. 17–32.
• Contributions to the anatomy and physiology of the skin. Voss, Leipzig 1853, digitized .
• Contributions to the physiology of the organ of vision. Engelmann, Leipzig 1854.
• Via the nerves of the intestinal wall. In: Journal for rational medicine. NF Vol. 8, 1857, ISSN  0259-7233 , pp. 364-366.
• Studies on Oxygen. Hahn, Hanover 1863.
• On the function of the ball glands . In: PG Unna (Ed.): Two forgotten works from the classic period of skin anatomy (= Dermatological Studies. Series 2, Booklet 2 = 9, ZDB -ID 501417-7 = Monthly booklet for practical dermatology. 1889, supplementary booklet 2) . Voss, Hamburg et al. 1889.
• Theodor Billroth's youth letters to Georg Meissner. Edited by Walter von Brunn . Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1941.
• Georg Meissner's letters to Jacob Henle . 1855–1878 (= works from the Goettingen State and University Library. Vol. 13). Edited and edited by Hans-Heinz Eulner and Hermann Hoepke. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-525-85261-4 .

literature

• Andreas-Holger Maehle:  Meißner, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 698 f. ( Digitized version ).
• N. Haas, H. Sperl: A medical student discovers onychomycosis . In: The dermatologist . Vol. 52, No. 1, 2001, pp. 64-67, doi : 10.1007 / s001050051265 .
• Holger Münzel: Max von Frey. Life and work with special consideration of his sensory-physiological research. Würzburg 1992 (= Würzburg Medical History Research , 53), ISBN 3-88479-803-0 , p. 195 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member entry by Georg Carl Friedrich Meißner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 3, 2016.