Theodor Meyer-Steineg

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Theodor Meyer-Steineg , before 1910 Theodor Meyer (born May 9, 1873 in Bückeburg , † May 10, 1936 in Ospedaletti in Liguria ), was a German lawyer , ophthalmologist and composer as well as an important medical historian .

Life

Theodor Meyer was born in Bückeburg in 1873 as the son of a banker. He studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . During his studies in 1890 he joined the Danubia Munich fraternity . After passing his state examination in 1896, he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He then worked as an assistant doctor at the Charlottenheilanstalt for eye patients in Stuttgart, until he settled himself as an ophthalmologist, first in Detmold and again in Jena in 1913.

After his practical work as a physician, he studied from 1901 jurisprudence at the University of Kiel and in 1905 at the University of Rostock to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1907 he completed his habilitation in medical history (with a thesis on the Roman medical status) at the medical faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . In 1911 he became an associate professor for the history of medicine. In the same year he founded the Institute for the History of Medicine in Jena. As early as 1909, he was instrumental in putting together the medical history collection at the Jena University Hospital , including 80 antique items collected in Greece, Crete and Asia Minor. In addition, from 1912 to 1932 he was the editor of the Jena medical-historical articles . In 1921 he published the standard work History of Medicine with Karl Sudhoff . After the "seizure of power" by the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated to Italy , where he spent the rest of his life.

From 1910 Theodor Meyer had the surname Meyer-Steineg. He came from a Jewish family and later converted to Christianity (Protestant). His wife was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 . Meyer-Steineg was active in many ways and had a. a. Entries in the Great Jewish National Biography ( Wininger ) and, because of his composing activity, in the Kurzgefasstten Tonkünstler-Lexikon (Frank / Altmann).

Fonts (selection)

  • Sick institutions in Greco-Roman antiquity . Fischer, Jena 1912.
  • Representations of normal and pathologically changed body parts on ancient votive offerings . Fischer, Jena 1912.
  • Ancient surgical instruments. A contribution to ancient aciurgy . Fischer, Jena 1912.
  • A day in the life of Galen . Diederichs, Jena 1913.
  • The methodologist's medical system. A preliminary study for Caelius Aurelianus "De morbis acutis et chronicis" . Fischer, Jena 1916.
  • with Karl Sudhoff : History of medicine at a glance with illustrations. Jena 1921; 4th edition, obtained from Benno von Hagen, ibid 1950; 5th, revised and expanded edition, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin , ed. and supplemented by Robert Herrlinger and Fridolf Kudlien , Stuttgart 1965; Reprint (with the subtitle From prehistoric times to modern times ) Krone / Voltmedia, Munich / Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-56-X .

literature

  • Christa Habrich : Theodor Meyer-Steineg (1873-1936). Doctor-historian, collector. Exhibition of loans from the Institute for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology (Ernst-Haeckel-Haus) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena from June 18 to August 4, 1991, German Medical History Museum Ingolstadt (= catalogs of the German Medical History Museum Ingolstadt , Issue 11). German Medical History Museum, Ingolstadt 1991.
  • Susanne Zimmermann:  Meyer-Steineg, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 385 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Susanne Zimmermann: Theodor Meyer-Steineg (1873-1936) and the history of medicine in Jena . In: Ralf Bröer (Ed.): A science emancipates itself. The medical histography from the Enlightenment to the postmodern. Modern history of medicine and science. Sources and studies (= modern history of medicine and science , volume 9). Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1999, ISBN 3-8255-0248-1 , pp. 262-269.
  • Werner E. Gerabek : Meyer-Steineg, Theodor. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 985.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 489-490.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Nolte : Fraternity members regular role. Berlin 1934, p. 328.
  2. ^ Old gentlemen's association of the Danubia fraternity in Munich (ed.): History of the Danubia fraternity . Volume 1, Munich 1978, p. 318.
  3. ↑ Toni Meyer-Steineg ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stolpersteine ​​in Jena, accessed on April 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.jena.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Steineg, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Theodor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, ophthalmologist and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Buckeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1936
Place of death Ospedaletti