Philipp Franz von Siebold
German biologist and traveller (1796-1866) · Germany · Scientists · Died at 70
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Something wrong?Jhr. Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna. He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine.
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Portrait of von Siebold by Kawahara Keiga, 1820s
Illustration made for von Siebold by Kawahara Keiga of the crab Carcinoplax longimana, 1820s
Pale-edged stingray by Kawahara for von Siebold, 1820s
Kawahara Keiga: Arrival of a Dutch Ship. Von Siebold at Dejima with his Japanese lover Kusumoto Otaki and their baby-daughter Kusumoto Ine. His fellow Heinrich Bürger observing with a teresukoppu (telescope) a Dutch ship towed into Nagasaki bay
Kusumoto Taki (1807-1865)
Von Siebold's daughter Kusumoto Ine (1827-1903), first female Japanese western physician and court physician to the Japanese empress
Portrait and residence of von Siebold at Narutaki, NagasakiAwards
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