Ernest Carroll Faust Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS C 170

Abstract

Zoologist and parasitologist working for the Rockefeller Institute in China and later professor and head of Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine and Tulane-Colombia Program in Medical Education.

Dates

1918-1966

Extent

2.88 Linear Feet (7 boxes, 7 vols.)

Creator

Faust, Ernest Carroll, 1890- (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

Restrictions

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Biographical Note

Born and raised in Carthage, Missouri, Ernest Carroll Faust initially taught high school in his native region after graduating from high school in 1907. He enrolled at Oberlin College in 1909, graduating in 1912. He spent the next two years as research assistant to Henry B. Ward in the department of zoology at the University of Illinois, earning an M.A. while there. In 1917 he completed his doctorate in zoology at the same school. He joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 1919 and spent the next 8 years at the Peking Union Medical College in China teaching and studying parasitology. In 1928 Faust accepted a professorship in parasitology in Tulane University's Department of Tropical Medicine. There he served until 1956 when he became Field Coordinator of the Point IV Tulane-Colombia Program in Medical Education. He worked and taught in Colombia until he retired in 1961 as emeritus professor of parasitology at Tulane.

Collection Summary

Contains correspondence, reprints, notes and photos relating to studies in parasitology. Correspondents include Claude H. Barlow, Paul Bartsch, C. Bonne, Asa C. Chandler, Chung Chang Tang, Herbert C. Clark, N. Hamilton Fairley, O. Fuhrmann, Albert Hassall, Robert W. Hegner, Reinhard J.C. Hoeppli, Harujiro Kobayashi, Charles A. Kofoid, Robert Matheson, Henry Edmund Meleney, Yoneji Miyagawa, L. Everard Napier, Amador Neghme, William A. Riley, K.I. Skrjabin, C.W. Stiles, W.L. Yakimoff, Sadamu Yokogawa, and Sadao O. Yoshida.

Additional Description

Abstract

Zoologist and parasitologist working for the Rockefeller Institute in China and later professor and head of Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine and Tulane-Colombia Program in Medical Education.