Siebold, PHILIPP FRANZ VON

Siebold, PHILIPP FRANZ VON, physician and botanist, was born at Würzburg, 15th February 1796, became sanitary officer to the Dutch in Batavia, and, accompanying the Dutch embassy to Japan, did much to make Japan known to the western world. He spent 1826-30 in Japan, wrote on the country, its flora, and language, and died 18th October 1866.—His brother KARL THEODOR ERNST VON SIEBOLD, anatomist, was born 16th February 1804, and became famous as professor at Munich (1853), where he died, 7th April 1885. He wrote works on the Invertebrata (Eng. trans. 1857), on tapeworms, on parthenogenesis, on salamanders, and on the fresh-water fishes of central Europe. See Life by A. von Siebold (1896).