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Philipp Franz von Siebold
* 1796 Würzburg
+ 1866 Munich
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician,
botanist and traveler.
He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora and fauna
and the introduction of Western medicine in Japan.
He was the father of the first female Japanese doctor educated in
Western medicine, Kusumoto Ine.
2021 J. Giesen