- Rudolf Robert Maier
Rudolf Robert Maier (
April 9 ,1824 -November 7 ,1888 ) was a Germanpathologist who was a native ofFreiburg im Breisgau . He studied medicine at theUniversity of Freiburg , where one of his instructors wasorthopedist Louis Georg Friedrich Stromeyer (1804-1876). He furthered his medical training inVienna with Carl Rokitansky (1804-1878),Joseph Hyrtl (1810-1894) andJosef Skoda (1805-1881), and inWürzburg underRudolf Virchow (1821-1902). Afterwards, he returned to Freiburg where he became an associate professor in 1859. Later he became a full professor, and in 1864 founded the first institute ofpathological anatomy at Freiburg.With
Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), Maier provided the first comprehensive description ofperiarteritis nodosa , which is sometimes referred to as "Kussmaul-Maier disease". The two doctors described their findings in the inaugural edition of the journal "Deutsches Archiv für klinische Medicin", which was co-founded byFriedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898) andHugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829-1902). Among Maier's written works were biographical treatises on 16th century physicians,Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg (1530-1598) andMichael Servetus (1511-1553).
* Associated eponym:
* "Maier's sinus": A depression in the internal surface of thelacrimal sac .References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."
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