Hans Horst Meyer

Hans Horst Meyer was a German pharmacologist. He studied medicine and did research in pharmacology. The MeyerOverton hypothesis on the mode of action on general anaesthetics is partially named after him. He also discovered the importance of glucuronic acid as a reaction partner for drugs, and the mode of action of tetanus toxin on the body.

Meyer was born in Insterburg, East Prussia . He studied medicine in Knigsberg, Leipzig, Berlin and again in Knigsberg. After his promotion to Doctor of medicine in Knigsberg he worked with Oswald Schmiedeberg, one of the founders of pharmacology as an independent scientific discipline, in Strasbourg. In 1881 he was appointed to the Chair of Pharmacology in Dorpat . Also in 1881, he married Doris ne Boehm. Together they had three sons, Kurt Heinrich , Arthur Woldemar and Friedrich Horst .

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