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Max Braun
1850–1930
A pioneering German zoologist and parasitologist, he helped turn the study of animal and human parasites into a serious scientific field. His books were practical, influential, and aimed at students, doctors, and veterinarians as well as fellow researchers.
1 Audiobook
The Animal Parasites of Man
by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Max Braun, J. W. W. (John William Watson) Stephens, Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald
About the author
Born in 1850 in Myslowitz and later active in universities including Würzburg, Dorpat, Rostock, and Königsberg, Max Braun — often listed in scholarly sources as Maximilian Christian Gustav Carl Braun — built a career across zoology, anatomy, and parasitology. Reference sources consistently identify him as a German zoologist and anatomist who specialized in parasites.
He is especially remembered for major works on parasitic organisms, including Die thierischen Parasiten des Menschen and, later, The Animal Parasites of Man. Those titles suggest the kind of writer he was: clear, systematic, and closely connected to practical science, producing books that supported medical and veterinary study as much as academic research.
Although he is not known today as a literary author, Braun belongs to the long tradition of scientific writers whose books opened specialist knowledge to wider professional audiences. He died in 1930 in Königsberg, leaving behind a body of work that remained important in zoology and parasitology for years afterward.