Wilhelm Meyer (actor)
Wilhelm Meyer may refer to: * Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934), German mathematician * Wilhelm Meyer (philologist) (1845–1917), who identified the poems of Hugh Prima * Wilhelm Meyer, inculpated in the Adolph Beck case * Wilhelm Meyer (physician), Danish physician who invented adenoidectomy in 1868 * Wilhelm Meyer (rosarian) (1870–1954), German priest and rosarian in Altnau Altnau is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. History Near the hamlet of Ruderbaum, the remains of a Horgen culture settlement have been discovered. Below the Horgen site, there also may be a P ...

Wilhelm Franz Meyer
Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934) was a German mathematician and one of the main editors of the '' Encyclopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften''. Life and work Meyer studied in the universities of Leipzig and Munich. In 1878, he was awarded a doctorate by Munich. He studied further in Berlin under Weierstrass, Kummer and Kronecker. In 1880, he got the ''venia legendi'' at the University of Tübingen. In 1888, he became a full professor at the Bergakademie of Clausthal (today Clausthal University of Technology). From October 1897 until October 1924, when he retired, he taught at the University of Königsberg. The wide research work of Meyer (more than 130 papers) is centred basically on geometry and, specifically, on invariant theory Invariant theory is a branch of abstract algebra dealing with actions of groups on algebraic varieties, such as vector spaces, from the point of view of their effect on functions. Classically, the theory dealt with the question of ...
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Wilhelm Meyer (philologist)
Wilhelm Meyer (1 April 1845, Speyer – 9 March 1917, Göttingen) was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer (Meyer from Speyer), from his birthplace Speyer. He was an authority on the prosody of medieval Latin verse, publishing on it papers that were collected in three volumes of his ''Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur mittellateinischen Rhythmik''. ''Die Oxforder Gedichte des Primas ...'' identified poems of Hugh Primas, up until then only a name. ''Der Gelegenheitsdichter Venantius Fortunatus'' (1901) worked out the chronology of the hymnodist Venantius Fortunatus Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus ( 530 600/609 AD; french: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (, ), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who ha ...
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Adolph Beck Case
The Adolf Beck case was a notorious incident of wrongful conviction by mistaken identity, brought about by unreliable methods of identification, erroneous eyewitness testimony, and a rush to convict the accused. As one of the best known cause célèbre, causes célèbres of its time, the case led to the creation of the English Court of Criminal Appeal (England and Wales), Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (U.K.), 7 Edw. VII, c. 23. Biographical background Adolf (or Adolph) Beck was born in Norway in 1841, and educated as a chemist. However, he went to sea soon afterwards and moved to England in 1865, working as a clerk to a shipping broker. In 1868 he moved to South America, where he made a living for a while as a singer, then became a shipbroker, and also engaged in buying and selling houses. He soon amassed a considerable amount of savings, at one time earning £8,000 as commission for a sale of a Spanish concession in the Galapagos Islands. He returned ...
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Wilhelm Meyer (physician)
The Danish physician Wilhelm Meyer (1824–1895) was the first to describe the clinical condition of nasal obstruction (blocked nose) with chronic mouth breathing, snoring, dull facial expression, and hearing impairment due to adenoid hypertrophy. Likewise he suggested how to treat the condition surgically by removing the adenoids with an adenotome. Adenoidectomy Adenoidectomy is the surgical removal of the adenoid for reasons which include impaired breathing through the nose, chronic infections, or recurrent earaches. The effectiveness of removing the adenoids in children to improve recurrent nasal sympto ... is still one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in children. References *Kierzek A. The hypertrophy of pharyngeal tonsil in the estimation of XIX-century physicians. Otolaryngol Pol. 2005;59(5):777-85. *Feldmann H. The nasopharynx and pharyngeal tonsil in the history of otology and rhinology. Pictures from the history of otorhinolaryngology, presented ...
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Wilhelm Meyer (rosarian)
Wilhelm Meyer may refer to: * Wilhelm Franz Meyer (1856–1934), German mathematician * Wilhelm Meyer (philologist) (1845–1917), who identified the poems of Hugh Prima * Wilhelm Meyer, inculpated in the Adolph Beck case * Wilhelm Meyer (physician) The Danish physician Wilhelm Meyer (1824–1895) was the first to describe the clinical condition of nasal obstruction (blocked nose) with chronic mouth breathing, snoring, dull facial expression, and hearing impairment due to adenoid hypertroph ..., Danish physician who invented adenoidectomy in 1868 * Wilhelm Meyer (rosarian) (1870–1954), German priest and rosarian in Altnau {{hndis, Meyer, Wilhelm ...
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