Nakai Takenoshin

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Nakai Takenoshin ( Japanese 中 井 猛 之 進 ; born November 9, 1882 in Gifu , † December 6, 1952 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese botanist who published numerous works on the flora of Korea . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Nakai ".

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From 1927 he taught at his alma mater at the Imperial University of Tokyo .

In 1942, shortly after the Japanese occupation of Java , Nakai became director of the Kebun Raya Botanical Garden in Bogor . After the war he became director of the Tokyo Science Museum (now the National Science Museum ) in 1947 .

Honors

The mushroom genus Nakaiomyces Kobayasi is named after Nakai .

literature

  • 朝鮮 植物 ( Chōsen shokubutsu ; Eng . The plants of Korea), 3rd vol., Tōkyō: Seibidō Shoten 1914.
  • Flora Koreana, J. Coll. Sci. Imperial Univ. Tōkyō, Volume 26 (1909), Volume 31 (1911)
  • 朝鮮 森林 植物 編 ( Chōsen shinrin shokubutsu hen ; German "The forest flora of Korea"), Seoul: Chōsen sōtokufu (= General Government of Korea) 1927–1932.
    • Lat. Edition title: “Flora Sylvatica Koreana”, Seoul, 22 volumes, 1915–1939

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Individual evidence

  1. a b 中 井 猛 之 進 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 18, 2012 (Japanese).
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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