Buntaro Suzuki

Anatomist. Born in Kanazawa as the eldest son of Suzuki Giroku, a physician of Western medicine. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of the Imperial University in 1888 (Meiji 21), he immediately joined the anatomy department and became an assistant to Professor Taguchi Kazuyoshi. In 1893, he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Fourth Higher School (now the Faculty of Medicine of Kanazawa University), and studied in Germany from 1896 to 1899. After returning to Japan, he became the first professor of anatomy at the newly established Faculty of Medicine of Kyoto Imperial University. During the dawn of anatomy in Japan, he wrote many books, including "Topographical Anatomy," "Academic Techniques for Anatomy," and "General Theory of Histology." His "Vocabulary of Anatomy" (1905) was Japan's first anatomical glossary based on international anatomical terminology. Furthermore, aiming to break away from the traditional translation of Western books, he began writing "Systematic Anatomy of the Human Body" based on the dissection of a Japanese corpse, but he died before being able to complete it.

[Keiichi Sawano]

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解剖学者。蘭方(らんぽう)医鈴木儀六の長男として金沢に生まれる。1888年（明治21）帝国大学医科大学を卒業、ただちに解剖学教室に入り、教授田口和美(かずよし)の助手となる。1893年第四高等中学校医学部（現、金沢大学医学部）教授に任ぜられ、1896～1899年ドイツに留学、帰国後、新設された京都帝国大学医科大学の初代解剖学教授となる。日本の解剖学の黎明(れいめい)期にあたり、『局所解剖学』『解剖学術式手訣(しゅけつ)』『組織学汎論(はんろん)』など多くの書を著した。『解剖学名彙(めいい)』（1905）は国際解剖学用語に基づく日本最初の解剖学用語集である。また従来の洋書の翻訳からの脱皮を目ざして、日本人死体の解剖に基づく『人体系統解剖学』の著述を始めたが、完成をみずに倒れた。

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