The institutionalization of parasitology in São Paulo: the contributions of Émile Brumpt between 1913 and 1948

Abstract

This article draws on a large volume of documents retrieved from the historical archives of Institut Pasteur, in Paris, the Manguinhos library of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the Hemeroteca Digital library run by National Library of Brazil to analyze the links between the institutionalization of parasitology in São Paulo and the presence of the French physician Émile Brumpt at the São Paulo School of Medicine and Surgery in its early years. Bringing to light information from previously unresearched or little-known primary sources, this article contributes to the historiography of exchanges between French and Brazilian scholars and the institutional memory of the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo.

Émile Brumpt (1877-1951; São Paulo School of Medicine and Surgery; Parasitology; Leishmaniasis; Chagas disease