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Hans von Meyenburg
German pathologist, born June 6, 1887, Dresden.
Associated eponyms:
Meyenburg's disease
A rare generalized disease characterised by increasing stiffness of muscles. The affected muscles become enlarged and indurated, and leter they become smaller and contracted, so that eventually the patient becomes completely immobilized.
Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome
A rare symptom complex involving the articular and nonarticular cartilages, consisting of anaemia, hepatosplenomegaly, and infections that are associated with a number of chronic diseases such as tuberculosis and malnutrition.
Von Meyenburg's complex
Andenoma-like hamartomas in the liver.
Biography:
Hans von Meyenburg attended the universities of Zurich, Munich, Kiel, and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate at Zurich in 1912. He spent his internship and period as assistant at the Zurich surgical clinic under Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) and at the pathological institutes in Munich and Zurich. He was habilitated for pathological anatomy and general pathology at Zurich in 1918, becoming ausserordentlicher Professor at Lausanne in 1919, ordentlicher Professor 1921. In 1925 he followed a call to the chair in Zurich. His works concern the study of pathological anatomy, particularly tumours.
Bibliography:
- Die quergestreifte Muskulatur.
Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, volume 9, 1; Berlin, 1929.
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