西博尔德的本草之缘——从一道日本高考题谈起

P.F.von Siebold and his destiny with Chinese materia medica(Ben Cao)

西博尔德(1796—1866)是日本江户时代驻日本长崎荷兰商馆的一位医生,他在日本期间收集了大量植物、矿物标本、图书,以及生产生活器物。这些文物被带到欧洲,其中一部分保存在荷兰莱顿西博尔德日本博物馆。透过该馆丰富的藏品,可以了解西博尔德在东西方科技文化交流方面发挥的桥梁作用,同时对于了解中医药的传播有重要参考价值。

P.F.von Siebold(1796—1866)was a physician at the Dutch Business Centre(Shang Wu Hui Guan)located at Nagasaki,Japan,in the Edo period.He collected a great amount of botanical and mineral specimens,books,and living wares when he stayed in Japan.He brought these materials to Europe and kept some of them at the Japan Museum Siebold Huis in Leiden in Netherlands.This collection showed the role of Siebold in connecting scientific and cultural exchanges between East and West and provided references in the research of the transmission of traditional Chinese medicine worldwide in the 19th century.