Ishii Ryosuke

Ishii Ryōsuke ( Japanese 石井 良 助 ; born December 14, 1907 in Tokyo ; died January 12, 1993 ) was a Japanese legal historian .

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Ishii Ryosuke was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1930 . He then got a job as an assistant at the university in 1930. Two years later he became an assistant professor. In 1937 he received his doctorate with the dissertation “Study on the Medieval Samurai Real Estate Legislation Law”. In 1942 he succeeded Nakada Kaoru as professor .

In 1968, Ishii was passed away with honors. Then he taught as a professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Niigata University , from 1970 as a professor at the Law Faculty of Senshū University and from 1979 as a professor at the Law Faculty of Sōka University .

In 1950 he became chairman of the "Japanese Society of Legal History" (日本 法制史 学会, Nihon hōsei-shi gakkai). In 1977 he became a member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences and in 1994 he was honored as a person of special cultural merit . In 1990 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

Ishii has collected, edited and published historical materials from the Tokugawa period and has left behind many works on legal history in the early modern period, including the 1948 “Overview of the History of the Japanese Legal System” (日本 法制史 概 ​​説, Nihon hōsei-shi gaisetsu), “Japanese Legislation in the Meiji Era”, translated and adapted by WT Chambliss (1958), “A History of Political Institutions in Japan” (1980).

Remarks

1. ↑ It was adopted as "Meiyō Kyōju" (名誉 教授). This is a special distinction from the university and cannot be compared with the term emeritus routinely used in Germany .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ishii Ryōsuke . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 630.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ishii is the family name, Ryōsuke the first name.