Emil Meirowsky

Emil Meirowsky (March 9, 1876, in Guttstadt, Germany – January 22, 1960, in Nashville) was a German dermatologist.

He interned at the Berlin Polyclinic with Oscar Werler, in Breslau with Albert Neisser, with Paul Gerson Unna and in Paris.

After the war, when the Meirowsky couple learned that their daughter Lisamaria had been murdered in the Holocaust, the family decided never to return to Germany.

He also researched the life cycle of the syphilis pathogen and the etiology of moles and congenital malformations of the skin.

Werner helped his parents escape the Nazi persecution and took the name William Merrow.