Maximilian Meyer Heine

Maximilian Meyer Heine (6 November 1807 - 6 November 1879) was a German doctor, who served with the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish War and who later became a Russian state councilor. He was the youngest brother of Heinrich Heine, the famous German romantic poet.

After studying medicine at the universities of Berlin and Munich, he graduated as a doctor in 1829, and in the same year joined the Russian army as a surgeon. During his army service, he took part in the invasion of the Balkans with General Diebitschs, and in 1832 he participated in the fight against the Polish rebellion.^{[citation needed]} Returning to Russia, he lived in Saint Petersburg and became the chief surgeon appointed to a military school. After his resignation from the army, he received the title of a State Counsellor. Together with his colleagues Thielmann and Krebel, he founded the Medical newspaper of Russia, a journal which he edited from 1844 to 1860.^[1] He died in Berlin in 1879.

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• Biography in 'German literary lives in St. Petersburg'

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