Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel (30 April 1755 – 17 March 1803) was a German anatomist, surgeon and obstetrician.
He was born in Berlin, the son of Johann Friedrich Meckel, a professor of anatomy. Two of Philipp's sons also became anatomists, Johann Friedrich (1781–1833), a professor at the University of Halle, and August Albrecht (1790-1829), a professor in Bern.
He studied medicine at the universities of Göttingen and Strasbourg, receiving his doctorate in 1777 with a dissertation on the labyrinth of the inner ear. Following graduation he took an extended study trip to Paris, London and Edinburgh. From 1779 he served as a professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Halle, and in 1788 took on additional duties as head of the surgical unit at the hospital in Glaucha.[1] On two separate occasions (1795, 1797) he was summoned as an obstetrician to St. Petersburg by the Russian royal family.[2][3]
At Halle an der Saale, he maintained and expanded upon an anatomical collection ("Meckelsche Sammlungen") that was initiated by his father.[4] He died at Halle.
- ^ Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel Archived 2016-04-06 at the Wayback Machine (biography by Sigrun Därr)
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