Meyer studied medicine in Munich, Berlin and Bonn, where he graduated in 1902 and worked for three years in the Charite hospital in Berlin before moving in 1905 to work with the eminent pediatrician Heinrich Finkelstein, with whom he also wrote articles and chapters in many medical books many.
After Finkelstein"s retirement Meyer was appointed director of the Emperor Frederick Berlin Hospital but in May 1933 was forced to resign due to the Nazi racial laws. Then he moved Tel Aviv and appointed head of pediatrics at Hadassah Hospital and pediatric consultant at the hospital Tzahalon (Dajani). Professor Meyer was the world"s leading child nutritionists at his time, studied the salt content of infant nutrition and invented one of the first artificial food for children based on cow"s milk.
He wrote many articles and several books, first in Germany in 1930, and latter on in English.
In 1969, the Municipality of Berlin decided to place a memorial plaque on the site of the department he ran in the thirties in the Kaiserund Kaiserin-Friedrich-Kinderkrankenhauses Hospital.
