Kondō Heizaburō

Kondō Heizaburō

Kondō Heizaburō ( Japanese 近藤 平 三郎 , also Kondō Heisaburō ; born December 11, 1877 in Matsuzaka (松 坂 町) ( Shizuoka Prefecture ); died November 17, 1963 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese pharmacologist.

Live and act

Kondō Heizaburō graduated from the Department of Pharmacy of the Medical Faculty of Tōkyō University and became a pharmacist in the army. As the first PhD student in the Department of Pharmacy to be dispatched by the army, he conducted research on plant components under the guidance of Nagai Nagayoshi . In 1907 he continued his education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and studied organic chemistry with Liebermann and physical chemistry with Nernst . In 1915 he became a professor at his alma mater and led the courses in pharmaceutical chemistry. In the same year he founded the Itsū Institute (乙卯 研究所) and researched the development of the organic chemistry of natural products in parallel with other researchers in the world. In 1928 he won the Academy of Sciences award for his important discoveries of various alkaloids. He was adopted as "Meiyo Kyōju", was president of the "Japanese Society for Pharmacy" (日本 薬 学会, Nihon Yakugakkai) and was a member of the Academy of Sciences.

Kondō's students include Ochiai Eiji , Tsuda Kyōsuke , Tomita Masao (富田 真 雄; 1903–1998), Ueo Shōjrō (上 尾 庄 次郎; 1909–1988) and others. Kondō wrote "Review of the Alkaloid Research" (ア ル カ ロ イ ド 研究 の 回顧, Alkaloid kenkyū no kaiko).

In 1958, Kondo was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Order of Culture in the same year .

Remarks

1. ↑ Meiyo Kyōju (名誉 教授) is occasionally rendered in German as "Professor emeritus". But in contrast to this title, which is automatically used on retirement, this is a special award only occasionally granted in Japan.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Kondō Heisaburō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 823.

Web links

• Biographies Kondō Heizaburō in the Kotobank, Japanese

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