Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel

Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel (30 April 1755, Berlin 17 March 1803, Halle an der Saale) was a German anatomist, surgeon and obstetrician.

He was the son of Johann Friedrich Meckel, a professor of anatomy in Berlin. Two of Philipp's sons also became anatomists, Johann Friedrich (1781–1833), a professor at the University of Halle, and August Albrecht (1790-1829), a professor in Bern.

He studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen and Strasbourg, receiving his doctorate in 1777 with a dissertation on the labyrinth of the inner ear. Following graduation he took an extended study trip to Paris, London and Edinburgh. From 1779 he served as a professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Halle, and in 1788 took on additional duties as head of the surgical unit at the hospital in Glaucha.[1] On two separate occasions (1795, 1797) he was summoned as an obstetrician to St. Petersburg by the Russian royal family.[2][3]

At Halle, he maintained and expanded upon an anatomical collection ("Meckelsche Sammlungen") that was initiated by his father.[4]

Selected works

In 1782/83 he published a translation of Jean-Louis Baudelocque's work on childbirth as "Anleitung zur Entbindungskunst" (2 volumes). Other works associated with Meckel are:

References

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