Fujii Kenjirō

Fujii Kenjirō ( Japanese 藤井 健 次郎 ; born November 11, 1866 in Kanazawa ( Kaga Province ); died January 11, 1952 ) was a Japanese botanist.

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Fujii Kenjirō, son of a samurai of the Maeda , graduated from Tōkyō University in 1892 . In 1901 he went to Europe and studied plant morphology and cytology at the University of Bonn under Eduard Strasburger .

In 1911 Fujii became a professor at Tōkyō University and contributed to the first lectures on genetics. In 1929 he founded the international magazine "Cytologia" and worked to bring the state of Japanese research in the field of cell research to an international level.

In 1950 he received the Order of Culture . In 1951 he was subsequently honored as a person with special cultural merits .

Remarks

1. ↑ Today Ishikawa Prefecture .
2. ↑ Since the imperial cultural order may not be linked to a payment, the distinction "person with special cultural merits" was introduced in 1951, which is linked to an honorary salary from budget funds. Only some of those who have been honored receive the cultural medal at the same time or later.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Fujii Kenjirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 412.

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