Mile - Mayr, Heinrich

Japanese: マイル - Ｍａｙｒ，Ｈｅｉｎｒｉｃｈ

Year of death: 1911.1.24(1911.1.24)
Born: October 29, 1854
A foreigner employed in Japan during the Meiji period. A German forestry scholar. Born in Bavaria (Germany). His father was a forestry officer. During his time at the gymnasium in Munich, he served as a shorthand reporter for forestry conferences, and after graduating, he became a forestry apprentice at the forestry office where his father worked. From 1876, when he studied at forestry school, until his later years, he continued to explore and research forests around the world. He first came to Japan in 1885 (Meiji 18) to carry out forest surveys, and stayed until the following year. In January 1888, he was invited to become a professor at the Tokyo Agricultural and Forestry School (Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo), and returned to Japan again, lecturing on silviculture and forest botany. He returned to Japan in February 1891. During that time, he explored forests in various locations, from Etorofu in the north to Yakushima in the south. The result, "Considerations on the Fir Family Plants of Japan" (1890), became the foundation for research into Japan's forest vegetation zones. When he left Japan, he commented that "the mountains of Izu and Kyushu are barren." In 1903, he visited Japan for the third time as part of the retinue of the Bavarian prince.

(Michio Tsutsui)

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

Japanese:

没年：1911.1.24(1911.1.24)
生年：1854.10.29
明治期に来日したお雇い外国人。ドイツ人林学者。バイエルン(ドイツ)に生まれる。父は森林官。ミュンヘンのギムナジウム時代に森林会議の速記者をしたり,卒業後父の勤務する営林署で林業見習生となる。森林学校に学んだ1876年より晩年まで世界各地の森林を踏査し研究を続けた。明治18(1885)年に森林調査で初来日し,翌年まで滞在。21年1月東京農林学校(東大農学部)教授として招かれ再度来日,造林学,森林植物学を講じる。24年2月帰国。その間,北はエトロフから南は屋久島におよぶ各地の森林を踏査。成果の『日本樅科植物考』(1890)は日本の森林植物帯研究の基礎となる。離日の際,「伊豆,九州の山は荒れている」との感想を残す。1903年バイエルン国皇子の随員で3度目の来日をした。

(筒井迪夫)

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