Stanislaus von Prowazek

Science writer, Deceased Person

1875 – 1915

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Who was Stanislaus von Prowazek?

Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek, Edler von Lanow, born Stanislav Provázek, was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

As a student at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the works of zoologist Berthold Hatschek and philosopher Ernst Mach. Other important influences to his career were immunologist Paul Ehrlich at Frankfurt and zoologist Richard von Hertwig in Munich.

With radiologist Ludwig Halberstädter, he described the inclusion bodies of Chlamydia trachomatis, the agent that is the cause of trachoma.

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

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Born
Nov 12, 1875
Jindřichův Hradec
Also known as
  • Stanislav Prowazek
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Died
Feb 17, 1915
Cottbus

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on July 23, 2013

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