Shimamura Shun'ichi
Shimamura Shun'ichi ( Japanese 島邨 俊 一 ; born January 24, 1862 in Tōkyō ; died March 11, 1923 ) was a Japanese neurologist during the Meiji and Taishō periods . Since he kept a diary, we know pretty well about his life.
life and work
Shimamura was born in Edo , today's Tōkyō, to the Nakamura family. He studied medicine at the Imperial University in Tōkyō, married the foster daughter of the doctor Shimamura Teiho ( 島村 鼎 甫 ) in 1885 and took his family name. After completing his basic studies in 1887, he continued his education under Sakaki Hajime ( 榊 俶 ; 1857-1897), who had stayed in Germany from 1882 to 1886 and treated the mentally ill in Kyoto. In 1891 Shimamura was commissioned to pursue fox superstition in Shimane Prefecture . He dealt with it from July 1 to September 2 in the prefecture and put together a report entitled Shimane-kenka kitsune-tsuki-byō torishirabe hōkoku ( 島 根 県 下 狐 憑 病 取 調 報告 ). Basil Hall Chamberlain mentions Shimamura in his book "Things Japanese" with his research on fox madness, especially on the Oki Islands .
At the end of 1891, Shimamura traveled to Europe at his own expense to continue his education in Berlin. The trip took him first briefly to Paris and then to Berlin, where he stayed for two years for further training. During this time he also visited Halle, Jena, Würzburg, Heidelberg and other places. In Berlin he met Friedrich Jolly , Emanuel Mendel , Karl Moeli , Ernst Siemeling (1857–1931), Hermann Oppenheim , Ernst Julius Remak , Albert Eulenburg , Erwin von Leyden (1831–1910), Rudolf Virchow , Wilhelm Sander , and Wilhelm von Waldeyer -Hartz . In the end he was still in Vienna, where he met Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Heinrich Obersteiner and Hermann Nothnagel .
In 1894 he returned from Genoa with the Reichspostdampfer Bayern back to Japan, together with the doctors Torii Shin'yō ( 鳥 居 春 洋 ), Yamane Gensaku ( 山根 元 策 ) and Ogata Keijirō ( 緒 方 銈 次郎 ). On his return he became a professor at the Kyoto Prefecture Medical School ( 京都 府 立 医 学校 , Kyōto Furitsu Igakkō ), later also at the hospital belonging to it. When Kyoto University, founded two years earlier, received a medical faculty in 1899 , the existence of the medical school was in jeopardy, but Shimamura managed to secure the medical school. In 1906 he received his doctorate in medicine, but fell ill in 1908 through overwork. In 1910 he laid down the management of both the hospital and the training facility in Kyoto. In 1917 he was honored with a bronze statue that has been preserved: it stands today in front of the library of the university ( 京都 府 立 医科大学 , Kyōto Furitsu Ikadaigaku ) upgraded training center.
The writer Christine Wunnicke has freely designed the life story into a novel that was published in 2015.
Remarks
- ↑ Shimamura also signed his writings as 島村 or 嶋 村 , which are also read Shimamura.
- ↑ Chamberlain gives in his book in the chapter "Demoniacal Possesion" a conversation with the German doctor Erwin Bälz , who concludes his remarks on the fox delusion with the reference to Shimamura, whom he then incorrectly describes as Bälz's assistant. (Chamberlain: "Things Japanese" 5th edition. London: Murray, 1905. pp. 115 to 121).
literature
- Yasuo Okada: Shimamura Shun'ichi - Shōden - Hiun no Seishinbyōgakusha. (Short biography - The sad fate of a psychopath). In: Journal of the Japanese Society for the History of Medicine. Volume 38, No. 4, 1992, pp. 603-636.
- Christine Wunnicke : The Fox and Dr. Shimamura. Berenberg Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-937834-76-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimamura, Shun'ichi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 島邨 俊 一 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1923 |