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Thunberg brought back knowledge on Japan's religion and societal structure, boosting interest into Japan, an early cultural form of Japonism. [12] [13] In both countries, Thunberg's knowledge exchange led to a cultural opening-up, which also manifested itself in the spread of universities and boarding schools which taught knowledge of the other ...
Carl Peter Thunberg in Japan. Employed as a surgeon by the Dutch East India Company, the Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg left Amsterdam in December 1771. Via South Africa and Java, Thunberg arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1775. Confined to Deshima.
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- Carl Peter Thunberg
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The Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, born in 1743 and one of Carl Linneaus' pupils in Uppsala, was the first scientist to collect and describe plants in Japan using the Linnaean approach. His book, Flora Japonica (1784), was the first flora of Japanese plants.
Thunberg, Carl Peter 1743-1828 Travel Contents Departure and arrival -- Life in Nagasaki -- Journey to the court in 1776 -- Residence in Edo, 1776 -- A description of Japan and the Japanese, I -- A description of Japan and the Japanese, II -- Residence at Dejima previous to my return home
Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story.
Today, I would like to speak in memory of Carl von Linné, and address the question of how European scholarship has developed in Japan, touching upon the work of people like Carl Peter Thunberg, Linné’s disciple who stayed in Japan for a year as a doctor for the Dutch Trading House and later published Flora Japonica.
