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  Philipp Franz Von Siebold - LoveToKnow 1911
PHILIPP FRANZ VON SIEBOLD (1796-1866), scientific explorer of Japan, elder brother of the physiologist, was born at Wiirzburg, Germany, on the r 7th of February 1796.
Siebold was well equipped with scientific apparatus, and he remained in Japan for six years, with headquarters at the Dutch settlement on the little island of Deshima.
In 1859 Siebold undertook a second journey to Japan, and was invited by the emperor to his court.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold - Career
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (February 17, 1796 in Würzburg - October 18, 1866 in Munich) was a German physician.
Philipp von Siebold became a Doctor by earning his M.D. Invited to Holland by an acquaintance of the family, von Siebold applied for a position as a military doctor.
As well, von Siebold was granted a generous annual allowance by the Dutch King Willem I. In 1842 the King even raised von Siebold to the peerage as an esquire.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold Biography
Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) stemmed from a Würzburg family of scholars.
Due to his extraordinary natural history and ethnographic studies, Siebold was selected to join the German academy of natural scientists 'Leopoldina'.
In 1859 Siebold traveled to Japan again and in 1861 entered into the services of the Shogun, with whose help he promoted the introduction of European science in Japan.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold Biografie
Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866) stammte aus einer Würzburger Gelehrtenfamilie und studierte in seinem Heimatort Medizin und Naturwissenschaften.
Wegen seiner herausragenden naturhistorischen und ethnographischen Studien wurde Siebold in die Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina gewählt.
Nachdem er 1829 wegen Spionageverdachts aus Japan ausgewiesen wurde, kehrte er nach Holland zurück und legte den Botanischen Garten und das erste ethnographische Museum in Leiden an.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796 - 1866) - Collecties
Siebold verwachtte niet dat hij veel nieuws kon ontdekken.
In Sjanghai aangekomen moeten ze wachten tot een Engelse stomer hen naar Nagasaki kan vervoeren.
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold, in het uniform van kolonel in het Nederlandsch Oost-Indische leger in 1859.
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 SieboldHouse
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was born in the city of Würzburg in Bavaria, into a family of doctors.
Siebold arrived at Deshima in 1823 with the assignment to collect information on the islands of Japan, the social and political structures and to investigate the possibilities to expand the existing trade.
Siebold's house rapidly grew into a meeting point for lectures, meetings and discussions and the host was seen as an expert on Western science.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold
Sent to Dejima, the artificial island next to Nagasaki, in June 28, 1823, von Siebold arrived August 11, 1823 as the new resident physician and scientist to the island.
Reportedly, von Siebold was not the easiest man to deal with; he was in continuous conflict with his Dutch superiors, who felt he was arrogant.
As well, von Siebold was granted a substantial annual allowance by the Dutch King William II and was appointed Advisor to the King of Japanese Affairs.
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 Philipp Von Siebold's dwarf tree observations
At the end of his stay, it became known that Siebold was copying a map of the northern (Ezo) regions of Japan with the connivance of the Imperial librarian and astronomer (who he had befriended on the early 1826 Dutch court journey to the shogun in Edo).
Siebold was forced to leave behind his young mistress and a two-year-old daughter (who lived until 1903), who were forbidden to accompany him.
Siebold returned to the Netherlands, prepared his Japanese materials for publication, was appointed in 1831 by King William I to be advisor on Japanese affairs, drafted the 1844 letter to the Tokugawa shogunate attempting to open the ports of Japan to trade, married the next year, and two years later moved to Germany.
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 Primula
Von Siebold was known not only for his knowledge of Western medicine, he also taught natural history to the Japanese.
It is said that von Siebold brought the tree from Japan in 1830 and now the passage of the years is engraved in the rings of the tree.
During the Edo Period, Philipp Franz von Siebold transported a specimen of the kakko-so to the Netherlands which is now carefully preserved in the Rijksherbarium at the University of Leiden.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Philipp Franz von Siebold (Würzburg, Alemania 17 de febrero, 1796  ; Munich 18 de octubre, 1866) fue médico y botánico alemán.
Philipp von Siebold alcanzó su graduación en medicina en 1820.
Von Siebold acostumbraba a llamarla "Otakusa" y nombró una Hydrangea en su honor.
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 UNESCO - Dialogue among Civilizations -- News and Events
Siebold, by pretending to be Dutch, was able to stay in Nagasaki from 1823 to 1829.
Siebold was sympathetic to Shinto because it is a simple religion which had its origin in ancient Japan and which rejected idols.
Siebold was an encyclopedist whose interest covered both natural and human sciences and who was skilled at fieldwork rather than philological studies.
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 Philipp Franz van Siebold - FREE Philipp Franz van Siebold Biography | Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
Philipp Franz van Siebold - FREE Philipp Franz van Siebold Biography
Philipp Franz van Siebold, 1796-1866, German naturalist and physician; son of A. von Siebold.
Von Siebold, who lived in Japan from 1823 to 1829, was allowed a...
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 Museumkennis - Philipp Franz Von Siebold als natuuronderzoeker
De belangstelling van Von Siebold voor de Japanse cultuur en natuur zijn van groot belang geweest voor de Leidse onderzoeksinstellingen Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde en het Nationaal Natuurhistorisch museum Naturalis.
Het is ook in belangrijke mate Von Siebolds verdienste dat het Rijksherbarium (nu Nationaal Herbarium Nederland genoemd) in Leiden is gevestigd.
Von Siebold inspecteerde zijn plantzendingen en achtte het veiliger om het hele Rijksherbarium naar de noordelijke Nederlanden te verplaatsen.
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 ✓ Philipp_Franz_von_Siebold - Doctor-Guide.de - DoctorGuide
Siebold lebte von 1823 bis 1829 auf der künstlichen Insel Deshima, Nagasaki.
Mit Hilfe von Rangaku-Wissenschaftlern wurde ihm gestattet, an der 4-jährlichen offiziellen Hofreise der Holländer zur Audienz beim Shogun teilzunehmen und das Festland zu bereisen, was eigentlich für Ausländer streng verboten war.
Siebold sammelte während seiner Zeit in Ostasien unzählige Gegenstände aus Kunst und Alltag, ganz entsprechend seinem enzyklopädistischen Anspruch.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796 - 1866) was the first Westerner to teach medicine in Japan.
In a specially built glasshouse[?] at his estate 'Deshima' he cultivated the plants he imported from Japan to endure the Dutch climate.
Quite characteristically 'Siebold' is almost unknown to the Dutch but a hero to the Japanese ('Siborut-san').
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 The Life and Work of Ph.Fr. von Siebold
von Siebold Philipp Franz von Siebold was born into a family of physicians in Wuerzburg, Bavaria (present-day Germany) on February 17, 1796.
Siebold arrived in Nagasaki in 1823 as resident physician at the Dutch Trading Post on Dejima Island in Nagasaki.
Siebold introduced Western medicine to Japan and contributed enormously to the modernization of the country.
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 Japanese collections
Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866), a native of Würzburg, Germany, enlisted as a physician in the service of the Netherlands East Indies Army with the express purpose of studying Japanese culture and society.
Von Siebold returned to Japan only after its forcible opening by commander Perry, and brought together a second collection, which was shipped to Amsterdam.
Von Siebold's private papers are preserved at the Ruhr-Universität (Bochum); parts of his collection are at the Japan-Institut (Berlin), the family archives of the Brandenstein-Zeppelin family at Burg-Brandenstein, and the Japanologisches Seminar (Bonn).
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold | THG Lexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Siebold studierte seit 1815 an der Universität der Stadt Würzburg, wo er sich neben der Medizin mit Naturwissenschaften, Länder- und Völkerkunde beschäftigte und 1820 die medizinische Doktorwürde erlangte.
Siebold erwarb später unter einem japanischen Namen ein Landhaus in Narutaki.
Mit Hilfe von Rangaku-Wissenschaftlern wurde ihm gestattet, an der 4-jährlichen offiziellen Hofreise der Holländer zur Audienz beim Shogun Tokugawa Ienari teilzunehmen und das Festland zu bereisen, was eigentlich für Ausländer streng verboten war.
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 Philipp Franz von Siebold
Siebold used this strenuous journey throughthe whole of Japan to the residence of the Shogun to assemble an extensive collection and to undertake studies.
Heinrich Philipp von Siebold (1852-1908), his second son, also loved to collect Japanese artefacts.
In 1892, Heinrich Siebold presented his own collection and parts of his father‘s to the Ethnographical Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, and to the Museum of Trade founded in 1873.
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 Philipp Franz Siebold
His grand father, Karl Kasper von Siebold a noted anatomist and surgeon, who was professor at the University of Wutzburg from1769 and established the school of surgery there.
Ine Kusumoto,who was Siebold' s illegimate became the first woman obstetrician in Japan by the help of Siebold's disciples after he left Japan.
Siebold published "Japan"," Fauna Japonica", and "Flora Japan" after he returned home and died in Wurzburg at the age of 70 in 1866.
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 Bulletin No.41
Siebold's deep interest in botany and the natural sciences, which made him well qualified for the task at hand, as well as for his medical practice, was very much respected by the Japanese.
 Siebold's enthusiasm for his charge, his deep interest in all things Japanese, his willingness to share his knowledge of medicine and science with his Japanese students, and the knowledge he sent back about a country that was scarcely known in the west, has had a lasting impact both in the west and in Japan.
Siebold discovered two important things about Japan; one was Japan's advanced state of horti-culture and the other was that Japan was skillfully utilizing its natural resources through a well organized system of recycling and sustainability.
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 Amazon.com: Philipp Franz von Siebold and His Era: Prerequisites, Developments, Consequences and Perspectives: A. ...
The physician and surgeon Philipp Franz von Siebold, born in Würzburg in 1796, was appointed as factory doctor of the Dutch East Indian Company in Dejima and, later on, he made history as the scientific discoverer of Japan for the Western world.
In commemoration of Philipp Franz von Siebold, his 200th birthday and the developments introduced by him were celebrated by various events in Nagasaki and Würzburg in 1996.
Text detailing von Siebold's achievements, his surroundings, modern developments in medicine and surgery, and the cooperation between Nagasaki Univ. School of Medicine, Japan, and the Univ. of Wurzberg, Germany.
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 JAPAN THROUGH WESTERN EYES Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1853-1941 Part 9: ...
He was able to visit patients in Nagasaki and to travel beyond the city limits in search of samples of flora and fauna for his studies and, most remarkably, in 1824 he was granted permission by the authorities to establish a school outside the city at Narutaki, primarily to provide instruction in medicine and surgery.
Siebold was able to bring the majority of the items he had collected safely back to Europe where he eventually sold them to the Dutch Government.
Siebold died in Munich in1866 at the age of 70.
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 2-New Primula Kisoana
Given the Rijksherbariumユs 400 year history and their custodianship of the Siebold collection, providing them with kakko-so seeds to grow is a most meaningful effort to say the least.
It is as if Siebold somehow managed to carry back the whole of Japan with him when he crossed the seas on his return voyage to Europe in 1820.
Unlike Siebold, I have journeyed by air, rather than by sea, to bring together new kakko-so specimens with their 170 year old ancestor in the Siebold collection in the Netherlands.
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 Von Siebold
Philipp Franz von Siebold was active as a physician on the island Deshima in the harbor of Nagasaki between 1823 and 1829.
Von Siebold and his successors also sent living plant specimens to the Netherlands.
There are images of herbarium sheets; of hand coloured plates from the Flora Japonica, issued between 1835 and 1870; of illustrated wood samples donated to Von Siebold by Mogami Tokunai; of some original water-colours of Kawahara Keiga, completed with coloured photographs of live Japanese plants of in total 750 species.
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Siebold was a German physician who tired of ordinary practice and got a job as surgeon major in the Dutch East Indies army.
SIEBOLD, PHILIPP FRANZ VON (1796-1866), scientific explorer of Japan, elder brother of the physiologist [Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, 1804-1885], was born at Wurzburg, Germany, on the 17th of February 1796.
In 1861 he obtained permission from the Dutch government to enter the Japanese service as negotiator between Japan and the powers of Europe, and in the same year his eldest son [Alexander Georg Gustav von Siebold, 1846-1911] was made interpreter to the English embassy at Yedo.
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