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Hiraga Gennai

1728 - 1780

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Hiraga Gennai (平賀 源内; born c.1729; died 1779 or 1780) was a Japanese polymath and rōnin of the Edo period. He was a pharmacologist, student of Rangaku, author, painter and inventor well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator), Kandankei (thermometer): 462  and Kakanpu (asbestos cloth): 67 . Gennai composed several works of literature, including the fictional satires Fūryū Shidōken den (1763),: 486-512  the Nenashigusa (1763),: 463-486 : 115-124  and the Nenashigusa kohen (1768), and the satirical essays On Farting: 393–9  and A Lousy Journey of Love.: 62-4  He also authored two guidebooks on the male prostitutes of Japan, the Kiku no en (1764) and the San no asa (1768).: 75  His birth name was Shiraishi Kunitomo, but he later used numerous pen names, including Kyūkei (鳩渓), Fūrai Sanjin (風来山人) (his principal literary pen name), Tenjiku rōnin (天竺浪人) and Fukuchi Kigai (福内鬼外). He is best known by the name Hiraga Gennai. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hiraga Gennai is the 281st most popular physician (up from 371st in 2019), the 618th most popular biography from Japan (up from 804th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Physician.

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Among physicians, Hiraga Gennai ranks 281 out of 726. Before him are 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, Eduard Wirths, August Oetker, Hans Berger, Regnier de Graaf, and Thomas Hodgkin. After him are Guillaume Dupuytren, Neferkare Neby, Irmfried Eberl, Norman Bethune, Ali ibn Ridwan, and Sun Simiao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Hiraga Gennai ranks 17. Before him are Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Robert Adam, Ali Bey al-Kabir, and Oliver Goldsmith. After him are Johann Adam Hiller, John Hunter, Matthew Boulton, Johann Andreas Stein, Carlo Allioni, and Kirill Razumovski. Among people deceased in 1780, Hiraga Gennai ranks 12. Before him are Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, and Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After him are Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, Johann Ludwig Krebs, William Blackstone, Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Luis Egidio Meléndez.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hiraga Gennai ranks 618 out of 6,245. Before him are Makoto Shinkai (1973), Masako Nozawa (1936), Kusunoki Masashige (1294), Masaaki Hatsumi (1931), Shō Tai (1843), and Soemu Toyoda (1885). After him are Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Saionji Kinmochi (1849), Hiroshi Ōshima (1886), Ken Naganuma (1930), Takenoshin Nakai (1882), and Kijūrō Shidehara (1872).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Hiraga Gennai ranks 5. Before him are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), and Tasuku Honjo (1942). After him are Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), and Sunao Tawara (1873).

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