Rudolf Robert Maier

Rudolf Robert Maier (April 9, 1824 - November 7, 1888) was a German pathologist who was a native of Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied medicine at the University of Freiburg, where one of his instructors was orthopedist Louis Georg Friedrich Stromeyer (1804-1876). He furthered his medical training in Vienna with Carl Rokitansky (1804-1878), Joseph Hyrtl (1810-1894) and Josef Skoda (1805-1881), and in Würzburg under Rudolf 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 of pathological anatomy at Freiburg.

With Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902), Maier provided the first comprehensive description of periarteritis 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 by Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898) and Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829-1902). Among Maier's written works were biographical treatises on 16th century physicians, Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg (1530-1598) and Michael Servetus (1511-1553).
* Associated eponym:
* "Maier's sinus": A depression in the internal surface of the lacrimal sac.

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* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."