József Marek

Josef Marek ( born March 18, 1868 in Vágszerdahely, today Horna Streda in Slovakia, † September 7, 1952 in Budapest) was a Hungarian veterinarian. Marek was a professor of veterinary pathology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest. In 1907 he first described a herpes viral disease in poultry, which is now called after him as Marek 's disease. His textbooks published in several editions and been translated into several languages.

Works

• Textbook of clinical diagnosis of internal diseases of domestic animals
• Special Pathology and Therapy of Pets
• The rickets in their aetiological, biochemical, pathogenic, pathological- anatomical and clinical relations
• The oriental cattle plague with special reference to clinical and anatomic characteristics and he differential diagnosis. In appendix: 14 case histories and cutting findings ( together with Oskar Wellmann )
• About original cowpox in humans

• Veterinarian
• Physician (19th century)
• Physician ( 20th century )
• University teachers (Budapest)
• Hungarian
• Born in 1868
• Died in 1952
• Man