Career
Niemeyer became a Doctor of Medicine in 1854 and published and lived as a practising physician in Berlin. In addition to purely scientific works and textbooks, such as the Handbuch der Theoretische und Klinische percussion und Auscultation (1868-1871) and Medicinische Abhandlungen (three volumes, 1872-1875), he published a variety of popular medical writings. Niemeyer died in Berlin.