Philipp Franz Balthasar Von Siebold

Place: Würzburg

Born: 1796

Death: 1866

Biography:

Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician, botanist and traveller. 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.