Ishikawa Chiyomatsu

Ishikawa Chiyomatsu (石川 千代松, January 30, 1861 – January 17, 1935) was a Japanese biologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, and ichthyologist at the Naples Zoological Station starting 1887. He was responsible for disseminating Darwin's ideas on evolution in Japan.

Ishikawa Chiyomatsu
Born(1861-01-30)January 30, 1861
 Japan Tokyo
DiedJanuary 17, 1935(1935-01-17) (aged 73)
Other names石川 千代松
Occupationbiologist, zoologist
ChildrenSon:Ishikawa Kin'ichi

Biography

Ishikawa Chiyomatsu was born in Edo as a son of a high-ranking samurai, Hatamoto. But Meiji Restoration happened and the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed, he moved to Sunpu (Shizuoka prefecture) in 1867. In 1972, he backed to Tokyo and studied English. He entered Tokyo Kaisei Gakko, which was for a high education college belonging Ministry of Education, in 1876. His class teacher was Montague Arthur Fenton, he started a collection of butterflies under his influence. Edward S. Morse, a professor of Tokyo Imperial University, was visited to see his collection in Act. 1977.

He entered Tokyo Imperial University in 1978, and studied under Edward S. Morse. After coming back of Morse, his teacher was Charles Otis Whitman and Kakichi Mitsukuri. After graduating from the Tokyo Imperial University, he studied in Germany under eminent evolutionary theorist August Weismann.

He was also the 5th principal of the Dokkyo Middle School in Tokyo.

relatives
  • Son:Ishikawa Kin'ichi (石川欣一)--journalist
  • daughter: Ishikawa Kiyo(石川きよ)--Married with Akira Terao (寺尾新), son of Hisashi Terao (寺尾寿), Astronomer.
  • Father of wife: Mitsukuri Rinsho--statesman and legal scholar in Meiji period, Japan

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Ishikawa Chiyomatsu


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