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F. Meyer is introduced here as spiritus rector of Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften and author of several of its parts. This mammouth work was edited by Teubner Verlag in 20 volumes between 1898 and 1935. His academic carrier Meyer began in Tübingen: from 1880 as privatdozent (with habilitation paper ``Apolarität und Rationale Kurven''), from 1887 as extraordinary professor. In 1888-1897 he was a professor in Clausthal Bergakademie und Bergschule, from 1897 in the Königsberg University, where he retired in 1924, but was active until his death. His bibliography contains 136 titles, in the original works he treated algebraic geometry, invariant theory, differential geometry. For the Enzyklopädie he wrote with \textit{G. Berkhan} the ``New triangle geometry'' (1921), generalized then to tetrahedron geometry. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0840.01058].