Review article
CONTRIBUTIONS TO GERMAN-JAPANESE MEDICAL RELATIONS -ERWIN BÄLZ: ; PROFESSOR OF INTERNAL MEDICINE IN TOKYO – 1876-1905
Alexander Kast
Abstract
The most important among the German pioneers of the Meiji period (1868-1912) is
Erwin Bälz (1849-1913); who graduated in internal medicine and received habilitation
from Leipzig University. He arrived in Tokyo in 1876 and taught at Tokyo University
for 26 years. Beside his field of expertise; his courses included physiology; pharmacology;
pathology; gynaecology and psychiatry. Among numerous publications; those about
hygiene and Beriberi prophylaxis are the most prominent. In 1905; he was the last
German university teacher to leave Japan.
Keywords
history of medicine; 19th century; physicians; medical education; Germany; Japan
Hrčak ID:
101757
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2004.
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