biography
| name: |
Siebold, Philipp Franz von
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pronunciation:
[zeebolt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1796–1866)
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| biography:
| Physician and botanist, born in Würzburg, SC Germany. He became medical officer to the Dutch in Batavia (now Djakarta), Java, and was stationed at a Dutch outpost in Nagasaki from 1823 to 1829, when he was expelled for obtaining too much information about Japan. He was largely responsible for the introduction of Western medicine into Japan, and Japanese plants into European gardens. In collaboration with German and Dutch scientists he published important works on the flora and fauna of Japan. |
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