Alexander Kotlan

* Szomolány, July 14, 1887 – † Budapest, December 22, 1967 / veterinarian, university professor, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1951) ; ; He obtained his degree at the Budapest Veterinary College (1911), then worked as an assistant professor at the college's pathology institute. In 1918, he was invited to the Vienna Veterinary College. He received his doctorate that same year. In 1921, he was appointed assistant professor at the Veterinary College and gave parasitological lectures, and from 1923, zoological lectures. In 1924, he continued his studies in the USA. In 1929, he was appointed extraordinary university professor, in 1935, he was appointed public full professor, and was also the director of the university's parasitological institute. His field of interest encompassed the entire field of parasitology. He played a prominent role in the institutional fight against parasitic diseases. He is credited with the description of several previously unknown forms of parasites. He contributed to the establishment of the parasitology department at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Animal Health Research Institute. Under his leadership, international cooperation to combat parasitosis began. One of the important stages of this was the international parasitology congress held in Hungary in 1948. He was elected an honorary member of several foreign societies. He became one of the founders and first president of the Hungarian Society of Parasitologists. He also participated in the editorial work of several domestic and foreign journals (Veterinary Journals, Magyar Állatorvosok Lapja, Acta Veterinaria Hungarica). More than a hundred of his publications and books were published. His work was recognized with the Kossuth Prize (1951), the Theodor Kitt Plaque (1962), and the Ferenc Hutÿra Memorial Medal (1967). A memorial meeting was held in his honor at the University of Veterinary Medicine in the summer of 1977, which later became a tradition and has been held every ten years since then. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him an extraordinary member in 1946 and a regular member in 1951. ; ; His main works: ; Infectious and parasitic diseases of poultry (with Rezső Manninger), 1931, ; Nematodes. Tapeworms and Tapeworms (In: Brehm – The world of animals, translation and addition), 1935, ; History of Hungarian veterinary education 1787–1937, 1941, ; Parasitology, 1953, Helminthology, 1960 (also in German).