Robert Meyer

Robert Meyer attended the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg and Strassburg, obtaining his medical doctorate at the latter in 1889.Following further education in Berlin he worked from 1890 to 1894 as a country practitioner in Dedeleben in the province os Saxony. From 1895 he was an assistant to Johann Veit (1852-1917) in Berlin, where he was active as a practitioner and private tutor (Privatgelehrter) from1896 to 1907.

From 1909 to 1911 he headed the laboratory at the women's clinic at the Charité hospital, working with Ernst Bumm (1858-1925) and Karl Franz (1870-1926). He later became chief of the pathological institute of the university women's clinic. He was made an honorary professor in 1932.

Meyer was largely an autodidact in his training for the field of gynaecological histology, of which he became a recognized authority. One of his main interests was embryonic tissue anomalies.

• Über epitheliale Gebilde im Myometrium des fötalen und kindlichen Uterus.
  Berlin, 1899.
• Zur anatomie und entwicklungsgeschichte der ureterverdoppelung.
  Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin, Berlin, 1907, 87: 408.
• Atlas der normalen Histologie der weiblichen Geschlechtsorgane.
  With Frans Moraller (1868–) and E. Hoehl. Leipzig, 1912.
• Die Pathologie der Bindegewebegeschwülste und Mischgeschwülste.
  In: Handbuch der Gynäkologie, volume 6, 1. München, 1930.
• Die Pathologie der Mola hydatiformis (Blasenmole) und des Chorionepithelioma malignum uteri.
  In: Handbuch der Gynäkologie, volume 6, 1. München, 1930.
• Die pathologische Anatomie des Uterus. Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, Berlin, volume 7, 1. Berlin, 1930.
• Mola hydatiformis (Blasenmole) und Chorion-epithelioma malignum uteri. Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, Berlin, volume 7, 1. Berlin, 1930.
• Placenta.
  Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, volume 7, 2. Berlin.
• Vagina, Vulva.
  Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie, volume 7, 2. Berlin.