Aoyama Tanemichi

Aoyama Tanemichi

Aoyama Tanemichi ( Japanese 青山胤通 ; born 15. June 1859 in Nakatsugawa in the province of Mino , died 23. December 1917 ) was a Japanese doctor.

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Aoyama Tanemichi was the third son of Aoyama Kagemichi (青山 景 通; 1819-1891), a samurai of the Naegi-han (苗木 藩) in Nakatsugawa . In 1869 he was adopted by the scholar Hirata Nobutane (平 田信胤), whereupon he changed his first name to "Tanemichi". Two years later he returned to the Aoyama family. He graduated from Tōkyō University in 1882 with a degree in medicine .

In 1883 Aoyama was sent to Germany, where he trained in internal medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. On his return in 1887 he became a professor at the State College of Medicine (医科大学, Ika daigaku), which later merged with the University of Tōkyō. When the bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894 , he was sent by the government, together with the doctor Kitasato Shibasaburō , at a time when nine out of ten infected people died. He also got infected, fortunately without any consequences. Aoyama also dealt with beriberi disease.

In 1897 Aoyama was also director of the university affiliated hospital (大学 付 属 病院, Daigaku fuzoku byōin). He became a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences , chairman of the “Society of Cancer Research” (癌 研究 会, Gan kenkyūkai), advisor to the court office and director of the “Research Institute for Infectious Diseases” (伝 染病 研究所, Densenbyō kenkyūjo), now “medical Research Institute of Tōkyō University “(東京 大学 医 科学 研究所, Tōkyō daigaku ikagaku kenkyūjo).

Aoyama, shaped by German medicine, strongly influenced the development of internal medicine and medical training in Japan. His numerous students include Kumagai Taizō and Inada Ryūkichi . He was buried in the Yanaka Cemetery .

Remarks

1. ↑ Today Gifu Prefecture .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Aoyama Tanemichi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 45.

Web links

Commons : Aoyama Tanemichi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographies of Aoyama Tanemichi in the Kotobank, Japanese

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Aoyama is the family name, Tanemichi the first name.