Kunisaki Teido - Kunisaki Teido

A social hygiene specialist. He is noted as a revolutionary who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Born in Kumamoto City. After graduating from the First Higher School, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Tokyo Imperial University in 1919 (Taisho 8) and entered the Institute of Infectious Diseases. He became acquainted with the director, Nagayo Mataro, and became an assistant professor at the Department of Hygiene at the University of Tokyo in 1924. He planned to open a social hygiene course after returning to Japan, and studied in Berlin in 1926, but in 1927 (Showa 2), he joined the German Communist Party and began his path to becoming an international revolutionary as the center of a group of Japanese leftists in Germany, and never returned to Japan. During that time, he translated Lenin's "Infantile Diseases of the Communist Left" and published "Lectures on Social Hygiene" in Japan. It is well known that he sent "Impressor" from "The '32 Theses" to Kawakami Hajime, who translated it and submitted it to the underground Communist Party. In 1932, with the rise of the Nazis, he defected to Moscow through the acquaintance of Katayama Sen. He died in prison on December 10, 1937, as part of Stalin's purges.

[Takeshi Kawakami]

"The Wandering Revolutionary" by Takeshi Kawakami (1976, Keiso Shobo) " "From Social Hygiene to Revolution" edited by Takeshi Kawakami, Tetsuro Kato, and Tan Matsui (1977, Keiso Shobo)"

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社会衛生学者。スターリン粛清の犠牲となった革命家として注目されている。熊本市生まれ。第一高等学校を経て1919年（大正8）東京帝国大学医学部を卒業し、伝染病研究所に入所。長与又郎(ながよまたろう)所長の知遇を得て、1924年東大衛生学講座の助教授となる。帰国後は社会衛生学講座の開講の予定で、1926年にベルリンに留学したが、1927年（昭和2）ドイツ共産党に入党し、在独日本人左翼グループの中心として国際的革命家への道を歩み始め、ついに帰国しなかった。その間にレーニン『共産主義左翼の小児病』などの翻訳や『社会衛生学講座』を日本国内で出版。「三十二年テーゼ」掲載の『インプレコール』を河上肇(はじめ)に送り、それを河上が翻訳して地下の共産党に提出した話は有名。1932年ナチス台頭により片山潜(せん)の縁でモスクワに亡命。昭和12年12月10日にスターリン粛清で獄死した。

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『川上武著『流離の革命家』（1976・勁草書房）』▽『川上武・加藤哲郎・松井坦編著『社会衛生学から革命へ』（1977・勁草書房）』

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