Education
He studied medicine in Leipzig, earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1819.
Obstetrician university professor
He studied medicine in Leipzig, earning his Doctor of Philosophy in 1819.
From 1821 he taught classes at the University of Leipzig, becoming a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in 1831. In 1838 he founded an obstetrics clinic. In 1856 he provided possibly the first account of long QT syndrome (LQTS), of which he described a case where a deaf girl collapsed and died while being publicly scolded at school.
Meissner was an active member of the Freemasons. In 1842 he started the German Masonic magazine- "Latomia".