Kikuchi Dairoku

Dairoku Kikuchi (Japanese菊池 大 麓; born March 17, 1855 in Edo (now Tokyo); † August 19, 1917 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese mathematician, Japanese Minister of Education, Professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1890 and appointed a member of the manor house of the Imperial Reichstag.

Kikuchi comes from the famous Japanese academic family Mitsukuri. His father Mitsukuri Shuhei taught at the " Institute of foreign books " ( Bansho Shirabesho ) in Edo, one of the forerunners of the University of Tokyo. Also Kikuchi attended this school and was sent early as age 11 in 1866 for classes in London. In 1870 he was back in England, where he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Cambridge (St John 's College ) and the University of London. After his return in 1877 he became a professor at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1888 and he received his doctorate. He was Minister of Education from 1901 to 1903 in the first cabinet of Katsura taro. From 1898 he was president of the Imperial University of Tokyo, and from 1908 the Imperial University of Kyoto. He was also the 1903-1904 president of the school for nobles, Gakushuin, 1909-1917 President of the Imperial Academy, Teikoku Gakushiin, and a short time the first president of the research institute RIKEN (founded in 1917).

In 1902 he was ennobled as Danshaku (Baron ).

Its geometry textbook was far from widespread after his death in Japan at schools.

He was the father of the physicist Kikuchi Seishi. His eldest daughter married the constitutionalists Tamiko Minobe Tatsukichi, his second daughter Chiyoko the lawyers and the House of Representatives Hideo Hatoyama, a brother of the future Prime Minister Hatoyama Ichirō.