August Franz Josef Karl Mayer Explained

August Franz Josef Karl Mayer (2 November 1787 in Schwäbisch Gmünd  - 9 November 1865 in Bonn) was a German anatomist and physiologist.

He received his education at the University of Tübingen, obtaining his doctorate in 1812. Afterwards, he worked as a prosector at the Academy of Bern, where in 1815 he was named a professor of anatomy and physiology. From 1819 to 1856 he was a professor at the University of Bonn. Among his better known students at Bonn were Johannes Peter Müller and Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff.^[1]

His name is associated with a female reproductive disorder known today as Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH); named in conjunction with Carl von Rokitansky, Hermann Küster and Georges André Hauser.^[2]

Selected works

He was the author of around 145 published works, many of them written from the viewpoint of natural philosophy.^[3]

• Ueber Histologie und eine neue Eintheilung der Gewebe des menschlichen Körpers, 1819  - On histology and a new division of tissues of the human body.
• Beschreibung einer graviditas interstitialis uteri, 1825.
• Supplemente zur Biologie des Blutes und des Pflanzensaftes, Book 1, 1827  - Supplements on the biology of the blood and of plant sap.
• Über Verdoppelungen des Uterus und ihre Arten, nebst Bemerkungen über Harenscharte und Wolfsrachen, 1829.^[4]
• Supplemente zur Lehre vom Kreislaufe, 1827 - Volume 1, 1835  - Supplements to the doctrine of circulation.
• Flimmerbewegungen, Leben der Blutsphären, Monadenlehre: 2, 1836.
• Die Metamorphose der Monaden, 1840  - The metamorphosis of monads.
• Beiträge zur anatomie der entozoen, 1841  - Contributions to the anatomy of Entozoa.
• Anatomische Untersuchungen über das Auge vom Walfisch, 1853  - Anatomical investigations on the eye of the whale.^[5]
• Ueber die Struktur der Häutedeckungen der Cetaceen, 1855  - On the structure of cetacean skin.^[6]
• Zur Anatomie des Orang-Utang und des Chimpanse, 1856On the anatomy of the orang-utan and the chimpanzee ^[7]
• Ueber die fossilen Ueberreste eines menschlichen Schädels und Skeletes in einer Felsenhöhle des Düssel- oder Neander-Thales, 1864  - Concerning the fossil remains of a human skull and skeleton in a cave of the Düssel or Neander valley.^[8]

Notes and References

1. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Mayer,_Karl_(Mediziner) ADB:Mayer, Karl (Mediziner)
2. 4740437 . 26904393 . 10.3205/iprs000087 . 5 . Plastic neo-vaginal construction in Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome: an expert opinion paper on the decision-making treatment process . 2016 . GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW . Doc08 . Torres- . de la Roche . LA . Devassy . R . Gopalakrishnan . S . de Wilde . MS . Herrmann . A . Larbig . A . De Wilde . RL.
3. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/568.html August Franz Joseph Karl Mayer
4. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1602.html Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome
5. https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22August+Franz+Joseph+Karl+Mayer%22 Google Search
6. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Mayer,A.F.J.C.1787-1865.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
7. Book: Zur Anatomie des Orang-Utang und des Chimpanse . 1856 . 9 December 2017.
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Nl2yAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ueber+die+fossilen+Ueberreste+eines+menschlichen+Sch%C3%A4dels+und+Skeletes+in+einer%22&pg=PT350 The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers