Johannes Justus Rein

Johannes Justus Rein ( born January 27, 1835 in Raunheim; † January 23, 1918 in Bonn ) was a German geographer and Japanese studies.

Life

As the Prussian Ministry of Commerce in 1873 a " technically highly educated experts " sought, which should examine the traditional Japanese industry, the choice fell on the Frankfurt trade teacher Johannes Justus Rein.

The aim was to investigate the production of Japanese products, such as email, lacquer, leather paper, porcelain, colored fabrics and bronze works.

Rein had studied in Giessen botany and chemistry, and then was a teacher in Frankfurt, Dorpat and Bermuda and England had been visited.

In October 1873 he traveled out to Japan. During his stay in Japan, he made a total of eight research trips by an average of two months duration. For the Berlin Cloissonne factory of Ravené and Süssmann in Berlin Clean recruited Japanese workers. Next he set in Germany experiments on the cultivation of Japanese mulberry trees ( for paper production) and paint trees. However Concrete achievements seem to be failed.

1876 ​​Rein was appointed to the Chair of Geography at the University of Marburg. In 1883 he moved as a successor to the China experts Ferdinand von Richthofen, who had, however, research has been twice in Japan, at the University of Bonn.

The final report of Rein's Japan trip, the two volumes Japan: Travels and Researches on behalf of the Royal Prussian government, were in 1881 and 1886 German and 1883 /84 and 1889 in the United Kingdom and the United States published in English. The German version of the first volume in 1905 was even reissued. The importance of Rein work can be gauged by the fact that it is still applied until the 1920s, that half a century after Rein's research trip, as the standard literature on traditional Japanese technologies.

Works

• Japan: Travels and Researches on behalf of the Royal Prussian government. 2 vols. Engelmann, Leipzig 1881/86. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive Vol 1, digitized and full text in German Text Archive Vol 2)

• Johannes Justus Rein: The Nakasendō in Japan to own observations and studies presented following the itinerary uptake of E. Knipping and with use of the notes; with three cards. Perthes, Gotha 1880, p.38 ( digitized in the University Library of Regensburg, http://bvbm1.bib-bvb.de/view/bvbmets/viewer.0.5.jsp?folder_id=0&dvs=1385857402254~528&pid=942678&usePid1=true&usePid2=true, accessed on 29 November 2013).