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*''Born: [[1743]]''
*''Died: [[1828]]''
Carl Peter Thunberg was ''[[opperhoofd]]'' (chief) of the [[Dutch East India Company]] factory at [[Dejima]] from [[1775]] until [[1777]]. A direct student of Carl Linnaeus, he has been described as "the most prominent European physician ever to visit Japan."<ref name=screech333>Screech, 333.</ref>
Prior to his sojourn in Japan, Thunberg studied not only under Linnaeus at Uppsala University in Sweden, but also at top institutions in Paris and Amsterdam.
While in [[Edo]] for several weeks on the annual VOC mission to the shogunate, Thunberg was visited on several occasions at the [[Nagasaki-ya]] by shogunal physician [[Katsuragawa Hoshu|Katsuragawa Hoshû]] and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar [[Nakagawa Jun'an]]. Thunberg is said to established a close relationship with the Japanese scholars, who he called his "beloved students."<ref name=screech333/> The two were among the team which had completed the ''[[Kaitai shinsho]]'' (the first major translation & publication in Japan of a European anatomy book) a few years earlier.
Following his return to Europe, Thunberg succeeded to Linnaeus' professorial position at Uppsala.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Presss (2012), 333.
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*''Died: [[1828]]''
Carl Peter Thunberg was ''[[opperhoofd]]'' (chief) of the [[Dutch East India Company]] factory at [[Dejima]] from [[1775]] until [[1777]]. A direct student of Carl Linnaeus, he has been described as "the most prominent European physician ever to visit Japan."<ref name=screech333>Screech, 333.</ref>
Prior to his sojourn in Japan, Thunberg studied not only under Linnaeus at Uppsala University in Sweden, but also at top institutions in Paris and Amsterdam.
While in [[Edo]] for several weeks on the annual VOC mission to the shogunate, Thunberg was visited on several occasions at the [[Nagasaki-ya]] by shogunal physician [[Katsuragawa Hoshu|Katsuragawa Hoshû]] and ''[[Rangaku]]'' scholar [[Nakagawa Jun'an]]. Thunberg is said to established a close relationship with the Japanese scholars, who he called his "beloved students."<ref name=screech333/> The two were among the team which had completed the ''[[Kaitai shinsho]]'' (the first major translation & publication in Japan of a European anatomy book) a few years earlier.
Following his return to Europe, Thunberg succeeded to Linnaeus' professorial position at Uppsala.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Presss (2012), 333.
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
