Kuroda Genji

Kuroda Genji ( Japanese 黒 田 源 次 ; * December 4, 1886 in Kumamoto Prefecture ; † January 13, 1957 ) was a Japanese psychologist.

Kuroda was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. After he had graduated from Daigo Kōtō Gakkō ( 第五 高等学校 ) in Kumamoto in 1908 , he studied psychology at the University of Kyoto and received his doctorate in 1922. He then went to study abroad in Germany, where he had universities in Leipzig and Visited Berlin. In 1926 he got a chair at the Medical University of Manchuria ( 満 州 医科大学 ).

In 1931 he returned to Europe and towards the end of the year became the Japanese director of the Japan Institute in Berlin, which was founded in 1926 . Kuroda edited Philipp Franz von Siebold's letters in collaboration with Herta von Schulz. He also edited the material archived in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , which Albert von Le Coq and Albert Grünwedel had collected. In 1934 he gave up his post as director of the Japan Institute and went back to Manchukuo , which he left after the Japanese defeat in World War II . He later worked at the Nara National Museum .

Genji Kuroda was interested in many things and interdisciplinary. In addition to psychology and medicine, he also dealt with sinology , art history and Japanese history, which owe him works that are still valid today.

Works (selection)

• Bashō-ō den ( 芭蕉 翁 伝 , Eng. " [Matsuo] Bashō's life"), 1923
• Shinrigaku no shomondai ( 心理学 の 諸 問題 , German "various problems in psychology"), 1925
• Kamigata-e ichiran ( 上方 絵 一覽 , dt. "List of Kamigata-e ( Ukiyo-e - print from Kyoto - Osaka )"), 1929

literature

• Publications of the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum 33, Acta Sieboldiana VIII, edit. U. ed. v.Hans Adalbert Dettmer, Harrassowitz Verlag

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