Erwin (* 13 January 1849 in Bietigheim Bissingen, "† 31 August 1913 in Stuttgart) was a German internalist, Anthropologe and a body physician of the imperial family and a joint founder of the modern medicine in Japan.

Life

The son of a building contractor visited the High School in Stuttgart and locked with 23 years in its medicine study. In its study time it was member of the Burschenschaft Germania Over contacts with a Japanese patient it 1876 for first limits two years to the medical university in Tokyo appointed. Erwin was a family doctor of the Japanese emperor.

It visited the Korean capital Seoul and Busan in the summer 1899 and made thereby ethnologische investigations. From 22 April to 3 July 1903 it was again in Korea and makes with Richard desire an expedition the inside the country.

As an university teacher it remained over 30 years in Japan and informed about 800 pupils in the western school medicine. To center of the 70's due to its influence the patient maps in German language were led. On its initiative the volcanic sources were removed by Kusatsu (200 km removed from Tokyo) to the today most successful bathing resort in Japan. He married a Japanese and had two children. 1905 it returned to Germany, where it deceased to 1913 at a heart disease.

was also passionate art collecting tank, a majority of its Japanese works of art is today in the lime tree museum in Stuttgart issued. A stone sculpture at the Eberhard Karl university in reminds of its earnings/services for the Japanese medicine. Since 1961 a partnership between cities between Kusatsu and Bietigheim Bissingen exists.

Erwin of and the Judo

Its sporty passion led it to the Wiederentdeckung and advancement of the Judos. At the imperial university in Tokyo drew the attention of Erwin of the young student Jigoro Kano to the old Jiu Jitsu. It energized its pupil to prepare this old kind of sport and to make these "“salonable"” for the entire Japanese youth. Jigoro Kano became together with Erwin of the most eager advocate and Apostel for this kind of sport.

With a fleet attendance of two Japanese cruisers in Kiel became this rediscovered kind of combat art, which German emperor at that time Wilhelm II. demonstrated, who thereupon for a Jiu Jitsu master asked, who could inform the cadets in this art at its military school.

Judo is a modification of the Jiu Jitsu, which was developed by Jigoro Kano in the today's form. Erwin of also today still applies thereby as a mental initiator Judo.

Related links

Articles in category "Erwin B"

We found here 5 articles.