Siegmund Mayer
Siegmund Mayer (born December 27, 1842 in Bechtheim near Worms, † September 1, 1910 in Amras near Innsbruck ) was a German physiologist .
Life
Mayer studied in Heidelberg, Gießen and Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1865 . He then worked with Hermann von Helmholtz in Heidelberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim in Leipzig and with Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke in Vienna.
In 1869 he received his habilitation in Vienna . In 1870 he became Ewald Hering's assistant in Prague. In 1872 he became an associate professor in Prague, and in 1887 a full professor. From 1880 he headed the newly founded Institute for Histology.
Mayer willingly bequeathed a considerable amount of money to the medical faculty of the German University in Prague . He is buried in Innsbruck. The monumental tombstone, a boulder in which the portrait of the deceased and a grave slab are embedded, is located in the Protestant section of the city cemetery .
Fonts
- Studies on the physiology of the heart and blood vessels. 6. Treatise: About spontaneous fluctuations in blood pressure. Reports of meetings of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, Anatomie, 74, 1876, pp. 281-307.
literature
- E. Rozsívalová: Mayer, Siegmund. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 446 f. (Direct links on p. 446 , p. 447 ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayer, Siegmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bechtheim near Worms |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1910 |
| Place of death | Prague |