Kensai Ikeda

Japanese: 池田謙斎 - いけだ・けんさい

Year of death: April 30, 1918
Year of birth: Tempo 12.11.1 (1841.12.13)
A medical educator and court physician during the Meiji period. His childhood name was Keisuke, later Kanesuke. He was born in Nishinoshinden, Kambara County, Echigo Province (Niigata Prefecture). He was the second son of Irisawa Kenzo. In March 1858, he went to Edo relying on his older brother Kyohei, and on February 20, 1863, he became a disciple of Ogata Koan in Edo. In November of the same year, he traveled to Nagasaki to study. He was first adopted by Koan, and later adopted by Ikeda Tanaka, a doctor at the vaccination center. In July 1869, he was appointed assistant professor at the university, and the following year, he also served as a junior official physician for the Imperial Household Ministry. He studied in Prussia (Germany) from December of the same year to May 1870, and after returning to Japan in 1871, he devoted himself to laying the foundations of the faculty as director of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, playing a pioneering role in modern medical education in Japan. In February 1876, he was made a baron, and in September 1870, he became an Imperial Court advisor. <References> "Ikeda Kensai, the physician of the Meiji Emperor"; Tsutomu Hasegawa "The life of Ikeda Kensai, the president of the Faculty of Medicine of the Tokyo Imperial University"

(Yasutaka Fukase)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：大正7.4.30(1918)
生年：天保12.11.1(1841.12.13)
明治期の医学教育者,侍医。幼名圭助,のち兼輔。越後国(新潟県)蒲原郡西野新田生まれ。入沢健蔵の次男。安政5(1858)年3月兄恭平を頼って江戸に出て,文久3(1863)年2月20日江戸で緒方洪庵の門下生となった。同年11月長崎に遊学。はじめ洪庵の養子,のち種痘所医師池田多仲の養子となった。明治2(1869)年7月大学校の大助教に任じられ,翌3年宮内省の少典医を兼ねた。同年12月から9年5月までプロイセン(ドイツ)に留学し,帰国後の10年東大医学部綜理として,同学部の基礎づくりに専念,わが国近代医学教育の先駆的役割を果たした。31年2月男爵,35年9月宮中顧問官。<参考文献>『明治天皇の侍医池田謙斎』,長谷川つとむ『東京帝大医学部総理池田謙斎伝』

(深瀬泰旦)

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