Siegmund Mayer

Siegmund Mayer (* December 27 1842 in Bechtheim at Worms, † September 1910 in Prague ) was a German physiologist.

Mayer studied in Heidelberg, Giessen and Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1865. He then worked for Hermann von Helmholtz in Heidelberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig and Julius Friedrich Cohnheim in Leipzig and at Ernst Wilhelm von Bridge in Vienna.

In 1869 he qualified as a professor in Vienna. In 1870 he became assistant to Ewald Hering in Prague. In 1872 he became an associate in Prague, in 1887 a full professor. From 1880 he headed the newly founded Institute for histology.

Writings

  • Studies on the physiology of the heart and blood vessels. 6 treatise: About spontaneous blood pressure fluctuations. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Mathematics and science class, Anatomy, 74, 1876, pp. 281-307.
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