Rudolf Leuckart
German zoologist and father of parasitology.
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His work spanned parasitology, invertebrate anatomy, and the development of teaching wall charts.[1][2]
Life and work
That same year he co-wrote "Anatomy of the Invertebrates" with Heinrich Frey.[3][2] He earned his doctorate with a dissertation on monsters in 1845.[3] Leuckart died of pneumonia in early 1898.[2][4] Leuckart's father, a book-printer owner, and his mother Friederike Dorothea Charlotte née Theuerkauf (1785–1834) raised him in Helmstedt.[3]
After passing his state exam in 1845, Leuckart took a position as Wagner's assistant.[3][2] At Giessen, Leuckart attained the rank of associate professor in 1850 and was promoted to full professor five years later.[3] A call to Leipzig in 1869 made him ordinary professor of zoology and zootomy there.[2] During his 1877 rectorate, Leuckart delivered an address titled "Über die Einheitsbestrebungen in der Zoologie".[2][1]
References
- Wikipedia, "Rudolf Leuckart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dolan, "Protozoa in the remarkable wall charts of Leuckart and Nitsche's Zoologische Wandtaflen", Protist, 2023; Abbott, "Science in culture", Nature, 2003, p. 580; Querner, Hans, "Neue Deutsche Biographie", 1985, p. 372; Heß, Wilhelm, "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", 1906, p. 672–675; Stiles, "The Rudolf Leuckart Celebration", Science, 1895, p. 523–524 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Querner, Hans, "Neue Deutsche Biographie", 1985, p. 372. facts only, no text reused. deutsche-biographie.de
- Wikipedia, "Rudolf Leuckart" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Nyhart, "Individuals at the Center of Biology: Rudolf Leuckart's Polymorphismus der Individuen and the Ongoing Narrative of Parts and Wholes. With an Annotated Translation", Journal of the History of Biology, 2011, p. 37 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Heß, Wilhelm, "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", 1906, p. 672–675. facts only, no text reused. deutsche-biographie.de
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