Inazo Nitobe collection
Inazo Nitobe collection
1,500 books →List of books (Borrowing not allowed/photocopying permitted)
| Student of Sapporo Agricultural College in its second year, educator, thinker and agricultural scientist Nitobe entered Sapporo Agricultural College in 1877 in its second year of existence. He signed Dr. Clark’s Covenant of Believers in Jesus and converted to Christianity. After also studying at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Tokyo, he studied overseas in the United States and Germany. He was appointed to the post of professor at Sapporo Agricultural College in 1891, and established Enyu Night School in 1894. Nitobe held successive positions as a professor at Kyoto Imperial University, the principal of Dai-ichi High School, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University and the first President of Tokyo Women’s Christian University. He became Under-Secretary General of the new League of Nations in 1926, and worked in international peacemaking throughout his life. The Nitobe collection mainly consists of literature on agriculture and economics, and also includes many books on areas colonized by the United States and European countries in the late 19th century to the early 20th century. |
1862 – 1933
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