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Laveran was born on June 18, 1845, in Paris, France. He was an only son with one sister. His family was in a military environment.
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physician Surgeon bacteriologist
Laveran was born on June 18, 1845, in Paris, France. He was an only son with one sister. His family was in a military environment.
He was educated in Paris, and completed his higher education from Collège Saint Barbe and later from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He received his M. D. degree from the University of Strasbourg in 1867.
After serving in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870-1871, he became an associate professor at Val-de-Grace in 1874. He was sent to Algeria in 1880 to study malaria and in that same year he published his discovery of the malarial parasite. He named this protozoa Oscillaria malariae, believing that various forms of this single species caused malaria. Later research has proved that there are four species, and when the genus was changed to Plasmodium the species first described by Laveran became P. malariae. He also observed the species now known as P. falciparum and P. vivax. Laveran also studied the parasite, a trypanosome, of dum-dum fever, or kala-azar. In 1903 he published a paper on this parasite, which he named Piroplasma donovani in honor of Charles Donovan, one of its co-discovers.
In 1883 Laveran returned to Val-de-Grace as a professor of military hygiene and clinical medicine. He became chief surgeon in 1891 and director of the Eleventh Corp's medical service in 1894. After retiring from the army in 1897, he joined the Pasteur Institute where he continued his research on malaria. In 1907 he established the Laboratory of Tropical Diseases at the institute.
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Laveran was honored by his election to the Academie de Medicine in 1893, becoming president in 1901. He was also elected to the Academie des Sciences and the Institute of France.
Laveran married Sophie Marie Pidancet in 1885. They had no children.
