August Albrecht Meckel (1790–1829) was a German physician. He was the grandson of Johann Friedrich Meckel the Elder and younger brother of

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Biography

Albrecht Meckel came from an old medical family. His father Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel (1755-1803) taught him anatomy and surgery. His grandfather, Johann Friedrich Meckel the Elder (1724-1774), was professor of anatomy and obstetrics in Berlin and surgeon of Empress

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. Meckel studied medicine at the universities of Jena and Halle. In 1807 he joined the Corps Saxonia Jena and 1810 the Corps Guestphalia Halle. During the

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(1813–14) he served as a volunteer physician in the Armed Forces of the

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under General Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782-1834). After a period as a pathologist with his half-brother

(the Younger) in Halle, he received a professorship in anatomy and forensic medicine at the

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, a post he held until his death. Albrecht August Meckel was married to Luise Johanne Wilhelmine Schmelzer (1796-1873), with whom he had three children. His son Heinrich Meckel von Hemsbach (1821-1856) was also a physician and professor of Pathological Anatomy. He was a pathologist at Charité Berlin AO.

References

Works

*''Einige Gegenstände der gerichtlichen Medicin''. Halle 1818. *''Beiträge zur gerichtlichen Psychologie''. Halle 1820. *''Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin''. Halle 1821.

Literature

* Eberhard J. Wormer: ''Meckel von Hemsbach, Johann Friedrich der Jüngere''. In:

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(NDB). Band 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, , S. 585 f. (Digitalisat). (reference in the article about his brother) *Nikolaus Rüdinger: ''Meckel von Hemsbach, Johann Friedrich (Anatom)''. In:

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; ) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1875 and 1912 in 56 volumes, printed in Lei ...

(ADB). Band 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, S. 159–162. (reference of Albrecht Meckel as a family member)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meckel, August Albrecht 1790 births 1829 deaths 19th-century German physicians