Stanislaus von Prowazek

Stanislaus von Prowazek (1875-1915), born Stanislav Provázek, was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

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Prowazek had studied epidemic typhus in Serbia (1913) and Istanbul (1914). Later, while Prowazek and Rocha Lima were working in a German prison hospital, they both became infected with typhus. Prowazek died soon after on February 17, 1915. Rocha Lima named the infectious agent of epidemic typhus- Rickettsia prowazekii after his colleague.

Bibliography:

• Einführung in die Physiologie der Einzelligen (1910)
• Handbuch der pathogenen Protozoen (1912)

Source:

• Who Named It? (Henrique da Rocha Lima}