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August Franz Joseph Karl Mayer
German anatomist and physiologist, born November 2, 1787, Schwäbish-Gmünd, Württemberg; died November 9, 1865, Bonn.
Associated eponyms:
Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome
Syndrome characterised by congenital absence of vagina, primary amenorrhoea, rudimentary cornua uteri and morphologically normal ovaries and Fallopian tubes situated on the pelvic sidewall.
Biography:
August Franz Joseph Karl Mayer studied in Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1812. In 1813 he became prosector in Bern and 1815 professor of anatomy, pathological anatomy and physiology in that town. In 1819 he accepted an invitation to assume the same position in Bonn, where he maintained a large practice besides his academic duties. He held this position until 1856, when he retired to make place for his successors, Maximilian Johann Sigismund Schultze (1825-1874) and Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
Mayer was a very prolific writer, publishing some 145 works. Most of them, however, deserve oblivion (and got what they deserved), being written in the tradition of the natural philosophers (im naturphilosophischen Sinne),
The works mentioned below are of a more «exact» nature.
Bibliography:
- Über Histologie und eine neue Eintheilung der Gewebe des Menschlichen Körpers. Bonn, 1819.
- Untersuchungen über das Nabelbläschen und die Allantois bei Embryonen von Menschen und von den Säugethieren.
Act naturae curiosorum caesarea leopoldina carol, vol. XVII.
Separetely, Bonn, 1835.
Obituaries:
- Rüdinger, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, XXI, page 121.
- Karl Schmizn in Die medizinische Fakultät der Universität Bonn 1818-1918. Bonn, 1918.
- Hermann Vierordt, in Medizin-Geschichtliches Hilfsbuch- Tübingen, 1916. Page 187.
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