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Philipp Franz von Siebold
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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science · German biologist and traveler (1796–1866) · botanist · carcinologist · physician · explorer · collector · botanical collector · scientific collector · ethnologist · japanologist · naturalist · also Philipp Franz von Siebold, Siebold, Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold, Philip Franz Balthazar von Siebold, Philippe Von Siebold, Franz Philipp Balthasar von Siebold
Born 17 February 1796 · Died 18 October 1866 · Q77140
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Which now maintains the entire natural history collection that von Siebold brought back to Leiden
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1866· 1 entry
Died 1866-10-18.
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1865· 1 entry
To try to interest the French government in funding another expedition to Japan, but failed
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1861· 1 entry
Von Siebold organised his appointment as an adviser to the Japanese government and went in that function to Edo
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1859· 1 entry
As an adviser to the Agent of the Dutch Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij) in Nagasaki, Albert Bauduin
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1858· 1 entry
The Japanese government lifted the banishment of von Siebold
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1845· 1 entry
Von Siebold married Helene von Gagern (1820–1877), they had three sons and two daughters
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1842· 1 entry
The King even raised von Siebold to the nobility as an esquire
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1841· 1 entry
With specimens of every plant from his original collection
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1835· 1 entry
But the work was not completed until after his death, finished in 1870 by F
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1833· 1 entry
Java already could boast a half million tea plants
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1832· 1 entry
The first part of a volume of a richly illustrated ethnographical and geographical work on Japan
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1830· 1 entry
Just at a time when political troubles erupted in Brussels, leading soon to Belgian independence
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1826· 1 entry
Von Siebold made the court journey to Edo together with the Dutch ‘opperhoofd’ colonel De Stürler
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1825· 1 entry
The government of the Dutch-Indies provided him with two assistants: apothecary and mineralogist Heinrich Bürger (his later successor) and the painter Carl Hubert de Villeneuve
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1824· 1 entry
Von Siebold started a medical school in Nagasaki, the Narutaki-juku, that grew into a meeting place for around fifty students
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1796· 1 entry
Born 1796-02-17.
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