Ernest Laplace

Background

Laplace, Ernest was born on July 9, 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Son of Basil and Eugenie (Sauvage) Laplace.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Georgetown College, 1880, Master of Arts, 1887, Doctor of Laws, 1895. Doctor of Medicine, University of Louisiana, 1884, and Faculte de Medecine of Paris, 1886. Pupil of Pasteur, Lister, Koch, and Billroth.

Career

Professor surgery, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, since 1892. Professor surgery, Graduate School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Surgeon to Philadelphia, Medico-Chirurgical, Polyclinic, and Misericordia hospitals. Consulting surgeon Eastern State Hospital for Criminal Insane.

Lieutenant colonel Medical Roman Catholic Inventor of first forceps for Intestinal Anastomosis.

Officier d’ Academie (Palmes Academiques), Paris, 1903. Commander Legion of Honor, France.

Commander Order of Saint Gregory the Great. Address: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Achievements

• Ernest Laplace has been listed as a noteworthy surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Catherine Borsch, 1902.

Father:

Basil Laplace

Mother:

Eugenie (Sauvage) Laplace

Spouse:

Catherine Borsch