Johannes Ludwig Janson

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Johannes Ludwig Janson
Janson's bust in Tokyo University. Work by Ōkuma Ujihiro (1856–1934)

Johannes Ludwig Janson (born September 1, 1849 in Prieborn , Strehlen district near Breslau ; † October 28, 1914 in Kagoshima , Japan ) was a veterinarian who, as a "foreign contractor" ( o-yatoi gaikokujin ), played a decisive role in the development of the modern Had veterinary medicine in Japan.

Life

After graduating from high school, Janson began studying veterinary medicine at the University of Berlin in 1866, where he took his state examination in 1869 and shortly afterwards took part in the Franco-German War as a veterinarian . After various positions as a veterinarian, in 1880 he was given a position as a tutor at the Military Veterinary Academy in Berlin.

In 1880 he traveled to an offer from the Japanese government to Tokyo , where he taught veterinary medicine from October 1880 to October 1886 at the Komaba Agricultural School ( Komaba Nōgyō-gakkō ). This school later became the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Tokyo . While the two to three-year contracts of the highly paid foreigners were rarely extended, Janson stayed on until 1902. He also made a lasting impression on his contemporaries as a dancer at the famous Rokumeikan banquets . When his employment finally ended after several extensions, he received the title of professor emeritus ( meiyo kyōshi ). At the same time, a bust was cast in bronze, which is still preserved today.

Janson traveled back to Germany, but moved back to Japan a few years later. Initially he taught at the Morioka School of Agriculture and Forestry ( Iwate Prefecture ). In 1907 he became a teacher of German and Latin at the secondary school No. 7 in Kagoshima, his wife's home, which had been founded six years earlier. Here he died in 1914, two months after Japan declared war on Germany and was buried in the Sōmuta cemetery ( 草 牟 田 ).

Fonts

  • with H. Tokishige: Filaria immitis and other parasites found in dogs in Japan. In: Communications from the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume V, Issue 48, 1889-1892, pp. 349-360.
  • The Tokyo Veterinary Institute. In: Communications from the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume V, Issue 49, 1889-1892, pp. 395-423.
  • The importance of white animals in Japan. In: Communications from the German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia. Volume V, Issue 49, 1889-1892, pp. 431-434.
  • Veterinary medicine in Japan. In: Archives for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine. Volume 17, 1891, pp. 61-80.
  • Sino-Japanese Veterinary Literature. In: Archives for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine. Volume 17, 1891, pp. 347-357.
  • Filaria immitis and other parasites found in dogs in Japan. In: Archives for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine. Volume 18, 1892, pp. 63-79.
  • Pets in Japan. In: Archives for Scientific and Practical Veterinary Medicine. Tape. 18, 1892, pp. 321-335 and pp. 434-446.
  • Published under Janson's revision: Kachiku ihan (Medical Guide for Pets). 16 volumes, Tokyo 1887–1890. ( 家畜 医 範 , digitized, National Diet Library )

literature

  • Alexander Kast: Johann Ludwig Janson, Professor of Veterinary Science in Tokyo in 1880–1902. In: Acta medico-historica Adriatica. Vol. 8 (1), 2010, pp. 109–118 ( online , PDF; 461 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since 1874 veterinarians were given access to military ranks. Since 1880 they were officers with the rank of paymaster. See Angela von den Driesch / Joris Peters: History of veterinary medicine: 5000 years of veterinary medicine . Munich: Callwey, 1989, p. 194.
  2. ^ Building # 3 of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tokyo.
personal data
SURNAME Janson, Johannes Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Prieborn , district of Strehlen near Breslau
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1914
Place of death Kagoshima , Japan