Rudolf Robert Maier
Rudolf Robert Maier ( born April 9, 1824 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † November 7, 1888 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German pathologist and anatomist. He is named for the Kussmaul -Maier disease and the Maier- sine.
Family
Maier was the son of the Privy Council financial Columban Maier and his wife Josephine ( core). He married in 1853, an only daughter (* 1857) was out of this connection.
Education and work
After completing high school he studied in Karlsruhe Maier from 1843 at the University of Freiburg Medical, where even the orthopedist Georg Friedrich Stromeyer ( 1804-1876 ) taught. A special friendship with Theodor Maier joined Bilharz.
The then -compulsory study trip to end training led him to Würzburg and Vienna. Here he impressed the leading physicians of this era: the pathologist Carl von Rokitansky, the anatomist Josef Hyrtl, the clinician Josef Škoda and the pathologist Rudolf Virchow. 1853 Maier habilitation with a thesis on the anatomy of the tonsils and entered a Prosektorenstelle on anatomical and pathological- anatomical institute in Freiburg. In 1856 he took over the lectures on pathological anatomy.
In 1859 he was appointed extraordinary professor. According to another study trip to Berlin, Leipzig and Prague Maier received in 1863, now vice-rector of the anatomy, a tenured professorship and after the appointment kiss mouth to the chair of internal medicine its own Chair of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Freiburg. Thus, the pathology was established as an independent teaching and research specialist in Freiburg and institutionalized.
Maier has won several medals, he received in 1877 the title of Privy Councillor, was 1878/79 elected Vice-Rector of the University and appointed to the Privy Councilor in 1887.
He died in 1888 following a massive goiter suffering with bronchoconstriction.
Performance
In his work, Maier 's preoccupation with pathological- anatomical or histological issues. In the monograph Thränenorgane of Man ( 1859) he described the sine sacci superior lacrimal whose cavernous building and there lacrimal glands occurring for the first time. He published a textbook of general pathological anatomy and dealt with diphterischer endocarditis. In addition, he led in 1882 by an experimental study on lead poisoning. Maier also authored three medical biographical essays (Karl Anton Gerhard, Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, Michael Servetus ).
Works
- About the construction of Thränenorgane, especially the thränenleitenden ways. part 1
- Thränenorgane of man. Freiburg 1859
- Over a previously undescribed peculiar arterial disease ( periarteritis nodosa ), which is associated with Bright's disease and rapidly progressive generalized muscle paralysis ( with A. Kussmaul ). Dtsch Arch Klin Med 1 (1866) 484
- Textbook of general pathological anatomy. Leipzig 1871
- Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg. Freiburg 1878