Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza

De Meza was born in Copenhagen in 1756. He was the son of the physician Christian de Meza, with whom he embraced Christianity in 1783. In the same year he graduated as M.D. from the University of Copenhagen, and became a member of the Royal Medical Society.

From 1784 until his death he practised medicine in Elsinore.

Meza published essays in medical journals. He also wrote a drama, Dormon og Vilhelmine that was produced at the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, in 1796.

Meza's son, Christian Julius de Meza (1792–1865), was a general in the Danish army during the Second Schleswig War.

• Tractatio de quibusdam notabilioribus objectis ad artem obstetricandi spectantibus. Copenhagen: Christian Gottlob Proft. 1783.
• "De Graviditate Mixta Observatio". Acta Regiæ Societatis Med. Hafniensis. 1: 442–450.
• "Relatio Febris Tertianæ Intermittentis Epidemicæ Anno 1784 Grassantis". Observationes Medico-Practicæ Quinque. 2: 197–213.
• "En Sjælden og Abnormal Tvillingfödsel". Bibliothek for Læger. 9: 41–43. 1821. Appeared afterward in Bulletin des sciences médicales (January, 1830) and in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences (no. 12, 1830).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gottheil, Richard; Cramer, Frank (1904). "Meza, Christian Jacob Theophilus de". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 530.