Carl Frederick Taeusch papers

The following historical note was taken from the Oxford Reference “The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers” website. Carl Frederick Taeusch was born on 20 January 1889 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and died on 20 September 1961 in Berkeley, California. Taeusch attended the College of Wooster (1907–1909), and started his teaching career in a public school in Yampa, Colorado. He then went to Princeton University where he received a LittB [Bachelor of Letters] in 1914. He taught high school in Hollywood, California, until 1917. He entered Harvard, and in 1920 he was awarded the PhD in philosophy. He taught philosophy for a year at the University of Chicago, and then taught philosophy at Tulane University (1921–3) and Iowa State University (1923–7). Harvard Business School appointed him as a professor of business ethics in 1927, where Taeusch was managing editor of Harvard Business Review and acting editor of International Journal of Ethics. In 1935 Taeusch left HBS to become an official of the US Department of Agriculture. Taeusch was a pioneer in business ethics.