# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kitaro-nishida
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:29:13.870Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/kitaro-nishida"
name: "Kitarō Nishida"
slug: "kitaro-nishida"
description: "Kitarō Nishida  was a Japanese moral philosopher, philosopher of mathematics and science, and religious scholar. He was the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from the University of Tokyo during the Meiji period in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth Higher School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. In 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture. He participated in establishing the Chiba Institute of Technology (千葉工業大学) from 1940."
tagline: "Japanese philosopher (1870–1945)"
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birthDate: "1870-05-19"
deathDate: "1945-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump