Friedrich Ludwig Meissner

Friedrich Ludwig Meissner was a German obstetrician, gynecologist and pediatrician, born in Leipzig on 25 August 1796. He studied medicine at Leipzig, earned his doctorate in 1819, began teaching there in 1821 and became professor of obstetrics and gynecology in 1831. In 1838 he founded an obstetrics clinic. He wrote widely on women's and children's diseases, including a work on displacements of the uterus and the vagina and a survey of nineteenth-century research in obstetrics and paediatrics, and he started the German Masonic magazine Latomia in 1842. In 1856 he gave what is possibly the first account of long QT syndrome, describing a deaf girl who collapsed and died while being scolded in front of her school. The article hedges that priority claim with the word possibly, so the attribution should be read as open. He died on 4 December 1860.