Urata Tadako

Urata Tadako ( Jap. 宇良田唯子 * 3. May 1873 in Ushibuka (now Amakusa ), Kumamoto Prefecture , † 18th June 1935 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese ophthalmologist and the first woman in Germany in specialized medical doctorate .

Life

Tadako Urata was the daughter of the wealthy businessman and writer Urata Genshō . Urata Tadako lived in Tokyo for a short time as a child , but eventually attended elementary school in Kumamoto.

From 1890 to 1892 Urata learned the profession of pharmacist at a private school in Kumamoto, passed the state examination three years later and received her license to practice medicine . Shortly thereafter, she attended the Saiseigakusha private medical college in Tokyo and completed her studies (taking into account her first pharmacological degree) within a year and a half. After Urata had passed the state examination in 1899, she received the license to practice medicine.

On January 10, 1903, Urata came to Germany on board a mail ship with the aim of doing a doctorate in Berlin . However, when she realized that it was not yet possible for women to obtain a doctorate in Berlin at that time, she moved to Marburg , where she was able to do a doctorate under certain conditions. With the dissertation "Experimental investigations on the value of the so-called. Credé'schen drop "was it on 28 February 1905, the University of Marburg in Ludwig Bach (1865-1912) for Dr. med. PhD. This made her the first female doctor to acquire a regular doctorate in Germany.

In 1906 Urata returned to Japan and opened an ophthalmological practice in Kanda , Tokyo. Five years later she married the Japanese Nakamura Tsunesaburō ( 中 村 常 三郎 ). Together they opened a private clinic in Tianjin , China , in 1912 , which they operated until 1932.

In 1934 she returned to her hometown and practiced her profession there, but went back to Tokyo the following year, where she died.

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• Aeka Ishihara: Japanese women doctors in Germany 1890–1905 Mizuko TAKAHASHI and Tada URATA . In: Hiyoshi Studies in German Studies . No. 49 , 2012, p. 75-101 ( online ).
• Urata, Tada 宇 良田 唯 (1873–1936). In: The Japanese Memory. Retrieved March 21, 2014 . 
• Marita Metz-Becker: Doctor behind the window. In: unijournal. Philipps University of Marburg, accessed on August 22, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 宇 良田 唯 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved February 22, 2014 (Japanese). 
2. ^ Deutschlandfunk: Women at Universities - Long Struggle for Equal Rights. Accessed September 5, 2019 (German). 

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