Title: Von Leipzig nach Japan
Subtitle: der Chirurg und Handelsmann Caspar Schamberger (1623-1706)
First published: 1999
Description: Life and achievements of the surgeon and merchant Caspar Schamberger whose activities in Japan (1649-51) mark the beginning of a lasting Japanese interest in Western medicine that gradually led to the upcoming of the so called Dutch Studies (rangaku) in premodern Japan. This is the first publication giving Schamberger's biography together with a detailed account of this stay in Japan.
Subjects: Biography, Description and travel, Dutch East India Company, Merchants, Surgeons, VOC, history of medicine, western medicine in Japan
Places: Batavia, Dejima, Deshima, Dresden, Germany, Japan, Leipzig, Nagasaki, Taiwan
People: Anthonio Brouckhorst, Caspar Schamberger, Caspar Schamberger (1623-1706), Inomata Denpei, Inoue Masashige, Jan Smit, Johann Christian Schamberg, Jurian Schedel, Pieter Blockhof, Willem Bijlevelt
Time periods: 17th century
LC classification: RD27.35.S32 M52 1999