Itō Gemboku

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Itō Gemboku
Sculpture at the birth house

Itō Gemboku ( Japanese 伊 東 玄 朴 ; born February 11, 1801 in Niiyama (仁 比 山) in the province of Hizen ; died January 2, 1871 ) was a Japanese medic of the late Edo period .

life and work

Itō Gemboku was born the son of a priest at Niiyama Shrine (仁 比 山 神社) and was later adopted by the noble family Itō, which belonged to the Saga-han. He studied Dutch under the interpreter Inomata Dejiemon (猪 俣 傳 次 衛 門), whose daughter he married, and medicine under Philipp Franz von Siebold . In 1826 he joined the Dutch embassy, ​​which had to pay their respects to the Shogun in Edo . Itō stayed in Edo and opened his own school there under the name Shōsendō (象 先 堂), in which he taught the "Dutch Studies" Rangaku . The school produced many prominent doctors and other scholars. In 1831 Itō was appointed chief doctor of the Saga domain and in 1838 as advisory doctor of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Ito played a leading role in the introduction of the smallpox vaccination in Japan. From the vaccination center that he had set up in Edo, the Medical Faculty of the University of Tokyo emerged. His written works include the 24-volume “Iryō seishi” (医療 正始), for example “Correct Beginning of Medicine”.

Ito's birthplace with a garden was set up as a memorial.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Today Kanzaki in Saga Prefecture .

literature

  • S. Noma (Ed.): Itō Gemboku . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 637.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Itō is the family name, Gemboku the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Itō, Gemboku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 伊 東 玄 朴 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese medic
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1801
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1871