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.
As a doctor, Ito developed a vaccination against smallpox. 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.
He wrote a translation of Flora Japonica titled Taisei honzou meiso (Japanese:"泰西本草名疏") that was 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).
In 1901, botanist William Botting Hemsley named a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae, from China and Vietnam, Itoa in his honour.
The standard author abbreviation Ito is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.Images
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Keisuke Ito
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A statue of Ito keisuke
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His translation of Flora Japonica
References
- "Keisuke ITOH". Archived from the original on 2017-06-24. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- "R". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- "Itoa Hemsl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- International Plant Names Index. Ito.
External links
Media related to Itō Keisuke at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Keisuke Ito (botanist) at Wikispecies- KUL Digital version of Taisei honzou meiso
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