Tomitaro Makino

Tomitaro Makino (Japanese牧野 富 太郎Makino Tomitaro ) ( born April 24, 1862 in Sakawa, Kōchi Prefecture, † January 18, 1957 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Makino ". Previously was also the abbreviation " Mak. " In use.

Life

Makino Tomitaro was the son of Sakebrauers. He grew up as an orphan on in Sakawa. At the age of 10 he attended a private school and moved to a public school three years later. Even as a child was his whole interest in the plants he collected in the surrounding mountains. He was very eager to learn the English language.

In 1880 he was for one year a teacher at the elementary school in his hometown. During this time he wrote his first scientific paper on botany. In 1881 he took a trip to Tokyo to a microscope and some botanical books to buy. In 1884, he moved all the way to Tokyo. At the University of Tokyo he presented the Botany Professor Yatabe before his illustrated book on botany. 1887 his first work was published. In 1890 he married.

In 1893 he became a research assistant at the University and in 1912 lecturer, what held until 1939.

In total, he has published six books on botany, in which he treated a total of 6000 species. 1,000 of them were first descriptions of Makino Tomitaro. 1948, the large, he was honored to be allowed to keep the Tenno Hirohito himself a lecture on botany. In 1936 he was awarded the Asahi Prize. After his death at the age of 94 years his house was transformed into the Makino Memorial Garden, a memorial to the "Father of Japanese Botany ". In addition, he was made an honorary citizen of Tokyo.

The asteroid ( 6606 ) Makino was named after him.

Works

  • Makino shokubutsugaku Zenshu ( Makino 's Book of Botany ) Sōsakuin, 1936
  • Makino Shin Nihon Shokubutsu Zukan ( Makino 's New Illustrated Flora of Japan) Hokuryuukan, 1989, ISBN 4-8326-0010-9
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