Mori Ōgai

Mori Rintarō, known as Mori Ōgai, was born on 17 February 1862 in Tsuwano, into a line of physicians attached to the lord of the domain. He graduated in medicine in 1881, the youngest of his time, and studied military hygiene in Germany from 1884 to 1888. In 1907 he reached the rank of surgeon general of the army; holding that beriberi had an infectious origin, he rejected the diet that the navy applied, and the disease killed many soldiers during the Russo-Japanese War. He translated Goethe, Schiller, Ibsen and Andersen, and died on 8 July 1922.

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• NovelThe Wild Geese雁Mori Ōgai · 1913Literature