Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

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Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt

Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer (born December 8, 1747 in Greifswald , † November 5, 1801 in Berlin ) was a German anatomist .

Life

Mayer was born in Greifswald in 1747 as the son of the mathematician Andreas Mayer . He went to school in his hometown and also attended Greifswald University . In 1777 Frederick the Great called him to Berlin to join the Collegio medico chirurgico as an anatomy professor. In 1778 he went to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) as a professor of medicine . It was there that he began his eight-volume work on anatomy.

In Frankfurt he was the second master of the chair of the Masonic lodge to the honest heart . Together with the brothers of the lodge, he let some hot air balloons ( Montgolfieren ) rise on March 7, 1784 .

In 1787 he left Frankfurt again and took over the chair for botany and pharmaceutical theory in Berlin. At the same time, he was in Berlin the personal physician of the king and director of the Botanical Garden . He was also commissarius of the court pharmacy and head of the Prussian medical and medical council. On November 4, 1782, Johann Christoph Andreas Meyer , nicknamed Erasistratus II, was accepted as a member (matriculation no. 864) in the Leopoldina . In June 1787 he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Treatise on the use of systematic botany in the art of medicine and housekeeping by Anton Ferdinand Röse (publisher), Greifswald, 1772, ( doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-25914 ), Library of the Natural Research Society Zurich
  • Description of the whole human body enriched with the most important recent anatomical discoveries. 8 volumes.
  • Anatomical description of the blood vessels in the human body. 1777; 2. increased u. improved edition, Berlin: GJ Decker, 1788, 12, 436 pp.
  • Anatomical-physiological treatise of the brain, spinal cord and the origin of the nerves.

literature

  • Klaus Eichner: On the 250th birthday of the medical professor Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer. In: Communications Frankfurt (Oder). Historical Association of Frankfurt (Oder) e. V., 1998 issue 1, pp. 25-27.
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 235 (archive.org)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Johann Christoph Andreas Meyer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 5, 2015 (with short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Johann Christoph Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Johann Christoph Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1801
Place of death Berlin