Rees - Riess, Ludwig

Japanese: リース - Ｒｉｅｓｓ，Ｌｕｄｗｉｇ

Year of death: 1928.12.27 (1928.12.27)
Born: December 1, 1861
A foreigner employed in the mid-Meiji period. A German history teacher. Born the son of a craftsman in Deutschkrone, a small city in West Prussia (now part of Poland), he worked as a copyist for the historian Ranke in his later years while studying at the University of Berlin, and in July 1883 obtained his doctorate at the same university for his research into the history of British parliamentary suffrage. During his third trip to England, he was invited to come to Japan in February 1886 (Meiji 19) as a teacher in the Department of History at the Faculty of Letters of the Imperial University, and for 15 years he lectured on European history, historical methodology, historiographical compilation methods, and other subjects, persuading President Watanabe Koki and Professor Shigeno Yasutsugu to establish the Historical Society (now a foundation), and also set an example for visiting overseas historical materials related to Japan and writing papers based on them, playing the role of fostering the history of modern Japanese academy history. His students included Murakami Naojiro, Tsuji Zennosuke, Koda Shigetomo, Yanai Wataru, Murakawa Kengo, Saito Agu, Uchida Ginzo, Miura Shuko, and Abe Shusuke. He also taught at Keio University for two years, beginning in January 1901. He initially lived in the teachers' house at Kaga Yashiki (on the University of Tokyo campus) and married Fuku, the daughter of cook Otsuka Kumanosuke, and had one son and four daughters, but left his family behind in his house in Yayoi-cho, Hongo, when he returned to Japan in August 1902. After returning to Japan, he became a lecturer and then a professor at his alma mater, the University of Berlin, and also a professor at the Army University. He contributed articles to five German newspapers under the pen names Grafen Lent and Genz, and published a compilation of these in Nihon Zakka (Miscellaneous Notes from Japan) (1904). He also worked on revising G. Weber's Course in World History and The Great World History at the University of Heidelberg. <References> Kanai En, "Lease," National Education Hall, ed., "Cultural Lecture Series," Vol. 59

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没年：1928.12.27(1928.12.27)
生年：1861.12.1
明治中期のお雇い外国人。ドイツ人歴史学教師。西プロイセンの小都市ドイッチュクローネ(現ポーランド領)の手工業者の子として生まれ,ベルリン大学在学中,晩年の歴史家ランケの写字生をし,1883年7月イギリス議会選挙権史の研究により同大学で博士号取得,3度目のイギリス旅行中に招かれて,明治19(1886)年2月帝大文科大学史学科教師として来日,15年間にわたり,ヨーロッパの歴史,史学方法論,史料編纂法などを講じ,総長渡辺洪基や教授重野安繹らに説いて史学会(現在は財団法人)の設立を促し,また日本関係海外史料の採訪,それに基づく論文執筆の範を示して,日本の近代アカデミー史学の育ての親の役割を果たした。門下に村上直次郎,辻善之助,幸田成友,箭内亘,村川堅固,斎藤阿具,内田銀蔵,三浦周行,阿部秀助らがいる。別に24年1月から2年間慶応義塾大学部でも教えた。当初は加賀屋敷(東大構内)の教師館に住み,賄い人大塚熊之助の娘ふくと結婚,1男4女を挙げたが,35年8月帰国のとき家族を本郷弥生町の家に残している。帰国後は母校ベルリン大学の講師,次いで教授,別に陸軍大学教授も兼ね,グラーフェンレントとかゲンツの筆名でドイツの新聞5紙に寄稿し,これをまとめた『日本雑記』(1904)を刊行し,またハイデルベルク大学のG.ウェーバーの『世界史教程』『大世界史』の改訂にも当たった。<参考文献>金井圓「リース」,国立教育会館編『教養講座シリーズ』59巻

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