Edwin Stanton Faust
Edwin Stanton Faust (born August 22, 1870 in Baltimore , † September 14, 1928 ) was a German-American pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Life
Faust was the son of German-American parents. He studied chemistry and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1893 (Dr. phil.). In 1894/95 he was an assistant in Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins University and in 1896 he became an assistant at the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Strasbourg under Oswald Schmiedeberg , where he received his doctorate in 1898. med. PhD. In 1900 he completed his habilitation in pharmacology.
In 1907 he became a full professor of pharmacology at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg . In 1920 he retired, his successor was Ferdinand Flury . He went to Switzerland and was director of the biological department of the Society for Chemical Industry until 1923. He was also a lecturer at the University of Basel.
The main focus of his research were animal and bacterial poisons. He wrote the section animal poisons in the manual of internal medicine (1st edition, volume 6) and for the manual of biological working methods by Emil Abderhalden and the manual of tropical diseases. He discovered the putrefactive poison sepsin (1904), was the first to demonstrate immunization against abiurete poisons and studied the effects of morphine and synthetic digitalis.
Fonts
- The animal poisons, Springer 1906
- with Max Cloetta , Erich Hübener , F. Flury, H. Zangger, editors Ferdinand Flury and Heinrich Zangger : Textbook of Toxicology for Study and Practice, Springer 1928
literature
- Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. 2 volumes. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1932–1933; 2nd and 3rd, unchanged edition Munich and Berlin 1962.
Web links
- Würzburg Wiki
- German biography
- Photography, Abebooks , with a biographical entry after Isidor Fischer
Individual evidence
- ↑ That means no biuret reaction
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faust, Edwin Stanton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German toxicologist and pharmacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1928 |