Rudolf Leuckart

German zoologist (1822–1898)

Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart (7 October 1822 – 6 February 1898) was a German zoologist and a professor at the University of Giessen and then at Leipzig. He was a pioneer of parasitology research and established the field through a two-volume work on the parasites of humans. He has been called the "father of parasitology".

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