Friedrich Ludwig Meissner


Friedrich Ludwig Meissner was a German obstetrician, gynecologist and pediatrician.
He studied medicine in Leipzig, earning his PhD in 1819. From 1821 he taught classes at the University of Leipzig, becoming a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in 1831. In 1838 he founded an obstetrics clinic.
In 1856 he provided possibly the first account of long QT syndrome, of which he described a case where a deaf girl collapsed and died while being publicly scolded at school.

Selected writings

Meissner was an active member of the Freemasons; in 1842 he started the German Masonic magazine Latomia.