Raphael von Koeber

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Raphael von Koeber

Raphael Gustav von Koeber (born January 15, 1848 in Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire , † June 14, 1923 in Yokohama , Japanese Empire ) was a German-Russian philosopher and musician who mainly taught philosophy and classical studies at the University of Tokyo as a foreign contractor .

Life

Von Koeber was born in Russia as the son of a German Baltic doctor and a Russian mother. From 1867 to 1872 he studied music at the Moscow Conservatory and at the Universities of Jena and Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate in 1880. phil. received his doctorate.

At the suggestion of his teacher Eduard von Hartmann , von Koeber went to Japan. From 1893 he taught philosophy , Greek , Latin and German at the Philosophical Faculty of the Imperial University of Tōkyō, where he was retired in 1914. His most famous student was the writer Natsume Soseki .

From 1898 to 1909 he also taught at the Tokyo Music School, which is now part of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music . It is said that he wrote the music for the opening of Nihon Joshi Daigaku in 1901 . In 1903 he accompanied the first European opera to be performed in Japan on the piano.

Because of the outbreak of war in 1914, von Koeber was unable to return to Russia as planned and stayed at the home of the Russian Consul General Arthur C. Wilm in Yokohama. He died in Yokohama in 1923 . His grave is in the Zōshigaya cemetery in Tokyo, and his tomb is considered a cultural asset.

Von Koeber's aunt was the Baltic German genre and portrait painter Helene von Franken .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothea Redepenning : Peter Tschaikowsky . CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-68810-2 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Koeber, Raphael von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian philosopher and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Nizhny Novgorod , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1923
Place of death Yokohama , Japan