Stanislaus von Prowazek

Stanislaus von Prowazek (12 November 1875 Jindřichův Hradec, Bohemia - 17 February 1915 Cottbus), born Stanislav Provázek, was a Czech zoologist and parasitologist, who along with pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima discovered the pathogen of epidemic typhus.

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:
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3185.html Who Named It? (Henrique da Rocha Lima}]