Niida Noboru - Niida Noboru

Japanese: 仁井田陞 - にいだのぼる

Born: January 1, 1904 in Sendai
[Died] June 22, 1966. Tokyo Oriental legal historian. Maiden name Sugano. After graduating from Keika Junior High School and Matsumoto Senior High School, he entered the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 1925. After graduation, he became an assistant and then a researcher at the newly established Institute of Oriental Culture, where he studied under Kaoru Nakata. He published "Tang Ling Shui" (1933), and in the following year, he received the Imperial Academy Prize. He received a doctorate in law for "Research on Legal Documents of the Tang and Song Dynasties" (37), and in 1942, he became a professor at the University of Tokyo and worked hard to establish the Institute for Oriental Culture. From 1939 onwards, he studied the methods of legal sociology through research on rural customs in North China, mainly with Suehiro Gentaro, and published "Chugoku no Shakai to Guildo" (51) and other works. His "Chugoku no Housei Shi Kenkyu" (4 volumes, 59-64) received the Asahi Culture Prize the following year. He retired in 1964, and went to England in 1965 to become a lecturer at the University of London, but was involved in a traffic accident and died shortly after returning to Japan.

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Japanese:

[生]1904.1.1. 仙台
[没]1966.6.22. 東京
東洋法制史家。旧姓菅野。京華中学校，松本高等学校を経て 1925年東京大学法学部に入り，卒業後新設の東方文化学院助手，次いで研究員となり，中田薫に師事。『唐令拾遺』 (1933) を刊行，翌 34年帝国学士院恩賜賞を受け，『唐・宋法律文書の研究』 (37) で法学博士，42年東京大学教授となり，東洋文化研究所の創立に尽力した。 1939年以降，末弘厳太郎を中心とする華北農村慣行の調査で法社会学の方法を学び，『中国の社会とギルド』 (51) そのほかを刊行，『中国法制史研究』 (4冊，59～64) は翌年朝日文化賞を受けた。 64年定年退官，65年ロンドン大学講師として渡英，交通事故にあい，帰国後まもなく死去した。

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