Keisuke Ito (botanist)

Keisuke Ito (伊藤 圭介, Itō Keisuke, February 18, 1803 – January 20, 1901) was a Japanese physician and biologist. He was born in Nagoya.

Keisuke Ito

As a doctor, Ito developed a vaccination against smallpox.[1] He also widely studied the Japanese flora and fauna with Philipp Franz von Siebold, the author of Fauna Japonica and Flora Japonica. Rhododendron keiskei was named after him.[2]

He wrote Taisei honzou meiso (Japanese:"泰西本草名疏") published in 1829.

Ito became a professor at the University of Tokyo in 1881.

He died in 1901, and he was ennobled with the title of baron (danshaku).

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  1. "Keisuke ITOH". Archived from the original on 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  2. "R". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  3. IPNI.  Ito.


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