Julius Mac Leod (19 February 1857 – 3 March 1919), was a Belgian biologist and professor at the

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. His father was of

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descent. Mac Leod was born in

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. He was also director of the

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. Julius Mac Leod was an active member of the

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and a proponent of the usage of Flemish at the University of Ghent. He died in

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during the

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epidemic of 1918–1919.

References

Julius Mac Leod
(Liberal Archive) * Bossaert, Henry, ''Julius Mac Leod en de Vervlaamsing'', Gent, Archief RUG, 1977, 94 p.

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