Born in Bietigheim, Germany; he studied medicine at Leipzig University.
Invited by the Tokyo Medical School (later the University of Tokyo medical faculty), he taught medicine, staying in Japan for many years.
Around this time he visited the Kusatsu hot spring, praised its benefits highly and introduced it to the world.
Around this time, studying the bluish birthmark on Japanese babies' lower backs, he named it the "Mongolian spot".
He served as a physician to the imperial household.
He returned to Germany with his Japanese wife Hana; his diary records his years in Japan.
He died in Stuttgart, Germany.
Nakae ChōminMori ArinoriTōgō HeihachirōKatsura TarōNogi MaresukeTakaki KanehiroLafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo)Hoshi Tōru
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.