Nationality Japan | Name Heijiro Nakayama | |
Died April 29, 1956, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||
Heijiro Nakayama (中山 平次郎, Nakayama Heijirō, June 3, 1871 – April 29, 1956) was a Japanese pathologist and archaeologist living in Fukuoka.
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Life
He was born in 1871 in Kyoto City out of the family of physicians and he went to Tokyo in 1874. During secondary school days, he was interested in archaeology and found remains, possibly, Yayoi pottery. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Imperial University and studied in Germany between 1903 and 1906. In the same ship was Sunao Tawara, also a pathologist. Nakayama became Professor of Pathology, Kyushu Medical University of Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyushu University at age 35. Nakayama's elder brother, Morihiko Nakayama served as Professor of Surgery of the same school. Nakayama's students included a Chinese physician Guo Moruo and Hakaru Hashimoto. Hashimoto thanked Nakayama for his guidance in his paper which led to the name of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Nakayama studied the life cycle of Schistosoma japonicum.
Archaeology
In 1909, he was accidentally infected with pyogenic bacteria during an autopsy, but fortunately survived. Since then, he completely discontinued pathological studies and started archaeology. Sunao Tawara, Professor of Pathology, pathologist of another department of Kyushu University undertook pathological studies.
Taisho era
During the Taisho era(1912-1926), he exclusively wrote in Kohkogakuzasshi (Jpn J Aechaeology), and he was criticized that he monopolized this journal although this journal was open nationwide. In early years of Showa, upon hearing the criticism, he discontinued his studies and he killed his time angling near his house, along the Hakata Bay. After the war, he taught archaeology to Dairoku Harada and who repatriated.