Rudolf Robert Maier

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Rudolf Robert Maier (born April 9, 1824 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 7, 1888 there ) was a German pathologist and anatomist . He is the namesake for the Kussmaul-Maier disease and the Maier sinus.

family

Maier was the son of the secret finance councilor Columban Maier and his wife Josephine (Kern). He married in 1853, an only daughter (* 1857) resulted from this connection.

education and profession

After finishing high school in Karlsruhe , Maier studied medicine at the University of Freiburg from 1843 , where the orthopedist Georg Friedrich Stromeyer (1804–1876) taught, among others. Maier had a special friendship with Theodor Bilharz .

The then mandatory study trip after the end of his training took him to Würzburg and Vienna . Here he was impressed by the leading physicians of this epoch: the pathologist Carl von Rokitansky , the anatomist Josef Hyrtl , the clinician Josef von Škoda and the pathologist Rudolf Virchow . In 1853 Maier completed his habilitation with a thesis on the anatomy of the tonsils and took up a position as a prosector at the anatomical and pathological-anatomical institute in Freiburg. In 1856 he took over the lectures on pathological anatomy.

In 1859 he was appointed associate professor. After another study trip to Berlin , Leipzig and Prague , Maier, meanwhile prorector of anatomy, received the full professorship in 1863 and, after Kussmaul's appointment to the chair of internal medicine, his own chair for pathological anatomy at the University of Freiburg. Pathology was established and institutionalized as an independent teaching and research subject in Freiburg.

Maier was awarded several medals, he received the title of Hofrat in 1877 , was elected Vice-Rector of the University in 1878/79 and was appointed Privy Councilor in 1887 .

He died in 1888 as a result of severe goiter with a narrowing of the trachea.

power

In his work, Maier mainly dealt with pathological-anatomical and histological issues. In the monograph Tear organs of the human being (1859) he first described the sinus sacci lacrimalis superior , its cavernous structure and the lacrimal glands occurring there . He edited a textbook on general pathological anatomy and dealt with diphtheric endocarditis . In addition, he conducted an experimental study on lead poisoning in 1882 . Maier also wrote three medical biographical treatises ( Karl Anton Gerhard , Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg , Michael Servet ).

Fonts

  • About the construction of the tear organs, especially the tears-leading ways. 1st chapter.
  • Tear organs of man. Freiburg 1859.
  • with A. Kussmaul: About a peculiar arterial disease (periarteritis nodosa) not previously described, which is associated with Brighti's disease and rapidly progressing general muscle paralysis. In: Dtsch. Arch. Klin. Med. 1, 1866, p. 484.
  • Textbook of general pathological anatomy for students and doctors. Leipzig 1871.
  • Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg. Freiburg 1878.

literature

  • Eberhard J. Wormer : Angiology - Phlebology. Syndromes and their creators. Medikon, Munich 1991, pp. 102-116.
  • Eberhard J. Wormer : Syndromes of cardiology and their creators. Munich 1989, p. 151.
  • Obituary. In: Contribution Pathol. Anat. 4, 1889, p. 473.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Institute for Pathology and its directors , Institute for Pathology Ludwig-Aschoff-Haus.
personal data
SURNAME Maier, Rudolf Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pathologist and anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1888
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau