Kikuchi Dairoku

Kikuchi Dairoku

Kikuchi Dairoku ( Japanese 菊池 大 麓 ; born March 17, 1855 in Edo (today: Tokyo ), † August 19, 1917 in Tokyo) was a Japanese mathematician, minister of culture , professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo and from 1890 appointed member of the mansion of Imperial Diet .

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Kikuchi comes from the well-known Japanese scholarly Mitsukuri family. His father Mitsukuri Shuhei taught at the "Institute for Foreign Books" ( Bansho Shirabesho ) in Edo, one of the forerunners of the University of Tokyo. Kikuchi also attended this school and was sent to London to teach at the age of 11 in 1866. In 1870 he was back in England, where he studied physics and mathematics at Cambridge University ( St John's College ) and the University of London . On his return in 1877 he became a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo and in 1888 he received his doctorate. From 1901 to 1903 he was minister of culture in the first cabinet of Katsura Taro . From 1898 he was President of the Imperial University of Tokyo and from 1908 of the Imperial University of Kyoto . He was also President of the Noble School, Gakushūin , from 1903 to 1904, President of the Imperial Academy, Teikoku Gakushiin , from 1909 to 1917 , and for a short time first President of the RIKEN Research Institute (founded in 1917).

In 1902 he was ennobled as a Danshaku (baron).

His "Textbook of Elementary Geometry" (初等 幾何学 教科書, Shotō kikagaku kyōkasho) was very popular in schools long after his death in Japan.

He was the father of the physicist Kikuchi Seishi . His eldest daughter Tamiko married the constitutional lawyer Minobe Tatsukichi , his second daughter Chiyoko married the lawyer and member of the House of Commons Hatoyama Hideo , a brother of the future Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kikuchi Dairoku . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 778.

Web links

• National Parliamentary Library : Biography ( Japanese , English )
• Koyama Japanese students at Cambridge University , pdf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kingendaikeizu.net: Hatoyama family

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