Von Leipzig nach Japan

Description:

Life and achievements of the surgeon and merchant Caspar Schamberger whose activities in Japan (1649-51) mark the beginning of a lasting Japanese interest in Western medicine that gradually led to the upcoming of the so called Dutch Studies (rangaku) in premodern Japan. This is the first publication giving Schamberger's biography together with a detailed account of this stay in Japan.

subjects: Biography,  Description and travel,  Dutch East India Company,  Merchants,  Surgeons,  VOC,  history of medicine,  western medicine in Japan

People: Anthonio Brouckhorst,  Caspar Schamberger,  Caspar Schamberger (1623-1706),  Inomata Denpei,  Inoue Masashige,  Jan Smit,  Johann Christian Schamberg,  Jurian Schedel,  Pieter Blockhof,  Willem Bijlevelt

Places: Batavia,  Dejima,  Deshima,  Dresden,  Germany,  Japan,  Leipzig,  Nagasaki,  Taiwan

Times: 17th century