Hata Sahachirō

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Hata Sahachirō (right) and Paul Ehrlich

Hata Sahachirō ( Japanese 秦 佐 八郎 ; * March 23, 1873 in Tsumo (today Masuda ), Mino-gun / Mino Province in the Japanese prefecture of Shimane on Honshū ; † November 22, 1938 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese bacteriologist and microbiologist .

Born the 8th son of Michitaka Yamane Sahachirō ( 山根 佐 八郎 ), he was adopted by the Tokuda Hata family in 1887. From 1893 to 1893 he studied medicine and was an assistant at the medical clinic in Okayama . He had attended the Third High School, where Inoue Zenjirō taught internal medicine and Araki Torasaburō medicinal chemistry. During his military service he conducted research at the Institute for Infectious Diseases (today part of the University of Tokyo ) under Kitasato Shibasaburō , whose assistant he was from 1898 to 1903, on the plague .

In 1907 he went to Germany, where he first conducted research at the Robert Koch Institute under August von Wassermann , and then at the Institute for Experimental Therapy in Frankfurt am Main as a visiting scientist and employee of Paul Ehrlich . Hata became known for his contribution to the development of arsphenamine , the first modern (chemotherapeutic) drug against syphilis, known as Salvarsan . On returning to Japan, he went again to the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Tokyo. Hata built up salvarsan production to combat syphilis in Japan during the First World War. He was twice unsuccessfully nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

In 1920 Sahachirō Hata became professor of microbiology at the medical faculty of Keiō University in Tokyo and in 1922 a member of the health committee in the Japanese Ministry of the Interior.

George Sultan visits Japan; far right: S. Hata, around 1930

The Society of Chemotherapy of Japan awards each year an award named after Sahachirō Hata and Shiga Kiyoshi for research in this field. In 1927 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

  • Werner Köhler : Hata, Sahachiro. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 539.
  • Hata Sahachiro: Collected Papers of Sahachiro Hata. Kitasato Institute and Kitasato University, Tokyo 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Little Encyclopedia. Encyclio, Zurich 1950, Volume 1, p. 687.
  2. ↑ Werner Köhler: Hata, Sahachiro. 2005, p. 539.
  3. ↑ a b 秦 佐 八郎 . In: 世界 大 百科 事 典 第 ２ 版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 18, 2012 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ a b Lutz sourdough: Hata Sahachirō. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (Eds.): Doctors Lexicon. From antiquity to the present. 3rd edition, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2006, p. 156, ISBN 978-3-540-29584-6 (print), ISBN 978-3-540-29585-3 (online).
  5. ↑ Nomination on nobelprize.org
  6. ↑ Member entry of Hata Sahachirō at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 19, 2018.
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Hata is the family name, Sahachirō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hata, Sahachirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 秦 佐 八郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese scientist and bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsumo , now Masuda , Japan
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1938
Place of death Tokyo