Ogata Kōan
Ogata Kōan 緒方 洪庵 | |
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Okayama) Japan | |
Died | July 25, 1863 , Japan | (aged 52)
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation(s) | doctor, rangaku scholar |
Ogata Kōan (緒方 洪庵, August 13, 1810 – July 25, 1863) was a Japanese physician and
Biography
Ogata was born in 1810 to a family of low-ranking
In 1838, Ogata returned to Osaka to establish his medical practice, and in the same year established the Tekijuku, an academy of rangaku studies, where he taught medicine, natural history, chemistry and physics for the next 24 years.[2] Ogata used his small but precious collection of Dutch books, including a Dutch-Japanese dictionary and a Dutch encyclopedia, to teach his pupils to read scientific Dutch texts. He also wrote several books, including a treatise entitled How to treat cholera, which he compiled in haste from various European sources during the great cholera epidemic of 1858.
From December 1849, he struggled to gain acceptance of the new
His house still exists in downtown Osaka. Built in a conventional eighteenth-century style, the students left their mark on the central post of the second-floor classroom, slashing and hacking it with their swords.[3]
Famous alumni
Alumni of the Tekijuku include Fukuzawa Yukichi, Ōmura Masujirō, Ōtori Keisuke, Takeda Ayasaburō, Nagayo Sensai, Sana Tsunetami and the manga artist Tezuka Osamu's ancestor Tezuka Ryōan.
Books
Ogata was the author of Byōgakutsūron (病学通論), which was the first book on pathology to be published in Japan.
Notes
- ISBN 978-0691613956.
- ^ O'Malley, Charles Donald (1968). The History of Medical Education: An International Symposium ..., Volume 673. University of California Press. p. 408.
- ^ Finn, Dallas: Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan, page 6. Weatherhill, 1995.