Louis Georges Neumann (22 October 1846 – 28 June 1930) was a French veterinary parasitologist who specialized in ticks. He was a professor at the Veterinary School in Toulouse. Neumann was born in Paris and was orphaned at a young age. He studied veterinary medicine at the Maisons-Alfort National Veterinary School in 1868 and joined the French army working at the cavalry school in

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. He became a lecturer at the

École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse ' (National Veterinary School of Toulouse), is a veterinary school located in Toulouse, France. Established in 1825, it is also an institution of higher education and research and a teaching hospital. Overview Opened in 1828, the ENVT is the o ...

in 1878 and a professor two years later. He worked on helminth parasites initially but soon started examining the arthropods starting with some interest in the

mallophaga The Mallophaga are a possibly paraphyletic section of lice Louse ( : lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been reco ...

but he gave the greatest attention to the ticks and became a leading expert on them. He published numerous descriptions of new species and received collections from around the world. He revised the taxonomy of ticks in the family

Ixodidae The Ixodidae are the family of hard ticks or scale ticks, one of the three families of ticks, consisting of over 700 species. They are known as 'hard ticks' because they have a scutum or hard shield, which the other major family of ticks, the 'sof ...

as part of the German zoological volumes ''Tierreich''. In 1896 he wrote a book on the biographies of famous veterinarians. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1918. He collaborated with Alcide Railliet, G.H.F. Nuttall, V.I. Yakimov, and others parasitologists from around the world. The mite genus '' Neumannella'' and many species of parasite such as ''Haemaphysalis neumanni'' have been named after him.

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Biographies vétérinaires
(1896)
Tierreich. Acarina. Ixodidae.
(1911) {{DEFAULTSORT:Neumann, Louis Georges 1846 births 1930 deaths French veterinarians