Yatabe Ryōkichi

Yatabe Ryōkichi ( Japanese 矢 田 部 良 吉 , born October 13, 1851 in Nirayama (韮 山 町) in the province of Izu ; died August 7, 1899 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Yatabe ".

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Yatabe Ryōkichi was born the son of a doctor in Nirayama. He studied botany from 1871 at Cornell University . After his return he founded modern botany in Japan in 1877 as the first professor of botany at the University of Tōkyō . He was also head of the "Museum of Education" (東京 教育 博物館), today's National Museum of Natural Sciences and director of the Koishikawa Botanical Garden .

After Yatabe was unemployed from 1891 to 1894, he became a teacher in 1895 and in 1898 rector of the higher normal school (later Tokyo University of Education ). The following year he drowned in Kamakura .

Yatebe founded, together with the American scientist Edward S. Morse , the Biological Society Tōkyō and was involved in the founding of the Botanical Society Tōkyō.

Honors

The genus Yatabea Maxim. ex Yatabe from the barberry family (Berberidaceae) and the algae genus Yatabella Okamura have been named in his honor.

Works

• Nihon shokubutsu dzukai. Iconographia florae japonicae… (1891–1893).

Remarks

1. ↑ Today a district of Izunokuni in Shizuoka Prefecture .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 矢 田 部 良 吉 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 17, 2012 (jp). 
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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• S. Noma (Ed.): Yatabe Ryōkichi . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1742.
• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Yatabe Ryōkichi at the IPNI

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