Aladár Aujeszky

Aladár Aujeszky was a Hungarian veterinary pathologist, bacteriologist and microbiologist, born in Pest on 11 January 1869 and died in Budapest on 9 March 1933. He is remembered above all for his work on pseudorabies, a herpesvirus disease of the peripheral nervous system that attacks a wide range of mammals and completes its life cycle only in pigs, and which still bears his name as Aujeszky disease. He studied under the physiologist Endre Hőgyes and from 1907 until his death worked in the Department of Bacteriology of the Royal Academy of Veterinary Medicine in Budapest, where he became professor of bacteriology. He later directed the Institute of Microbiology at the Veterinary School in Budapest. The source credits him with 528 publications. His career sits at the boundary between animal and human medicine, since the infectious agents he studied are central to how infectious disease is understood and controlled.