Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer (May 23, 1879 in
Wiesbaden,
Germany – September 19, 1954 in
Tel Aviv,
Israel) was a
pediatrician
Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...
and nutrition expert (especially nutrition of infants and children), professor of Medicine at the
University of Berlin and the
Hebrew University of
Jerusalem,
Israel.
Biography
Meyer studied medicine in
Munich,
Berlin and
Bonn, where he graduated in 1902 and worked for three years in the
Charite hospital in Berlin before moving in 1905 to work with the eminent pediatrician
Heinrich Finkelstein
Heinrich Finkelstein (31 July 1865 in Leipzig, Germany – 28 January 1942 in Santiago de Chile), was a German Jewish pediatrician and a pioneer in pediatric nutrition.
Life
His father was a businessman and the head of the local Jewish community ...
, with whom he also wrote articles and chapters in many medical books many.
After Finkelstein's retirement Meyer was appointed director of the Emperor Frederick Berlin Hospital but in May 1933 was forced to resign due to the
Nazi racial laws.
In 1935 immigrated to Israel with his wife Lotte, daughter Ilse and son in law, Professor Walter Hirsch and his grandson Daniel (later psychiatrist and author bestseller Dr.
Daniel Offer
Daniel Offer (December 24, 1929 – May 13, 2013) was a psychiatrist and scholar who challenged prevailing beliefs that adolescence is inherently a time of storm and stress. His Offer Longitudinal Study was one of the first studies of typical yout ...
) and settled first in Jerusalem where he served as head of the
Bikur Holim Hospital for a year. Then he moved Tel Aviv and appointed head of pediatrics at Hadassah Hospital and pediatric consultant at the hospital Tzahalon (Dajani).
Professor Meyer was the world's leading child nutritionists at his time, studied the salt content of infant nutrition and invented one of the first artificial food for children based on cow's milk. He wrote many articles and several books, first in Germany in 1930, and latter on in English.
In 1969, the Municipality of Berlin decided to place a memorial plaque on the site of the department he ran in the thirties in the Kaiser- und Kaiserin-Friedrich-Kinderkrankenhauses Hospital.
memorial plaque Prof. Dr. Ludwig Ferdinand Meyer
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References
Ludwig F. Meyer
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1879 births
1954 deaths
German pediatricians
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine