Johannes Justus Rein
German Japanologist (1835-1918)
Johannes Justus Rein (27 January 1835 in Raunheim, near Giessen – 23 January 1918 in Bonn) was a German geographer, author and traveler in East Asia. Rein became better known based on his two volume work on his travels in Japan which was translated into English in 1884.
Biography
Rein was born in Raunheim. His father Kaspar gave up work as a customs officer and the family moved to a farm that he inherited in Mainzlar. After studies in the town elementary school and the Provincial Realschule in Giessen, he went in 1851 to study mathematics and science at the University of Giessen but gave up studies and he went to the teacher training college in Friedberg and in 1855 he became a high school teacher first at Frankfurt and then at Reval where he travelled around the Baltic region. He joined the University of Dorpat in 1961 and received a doctorate with a thesis on the vegetation and geography of Estonia. He then became a private tutor of the son of the governor of the Bermudas in Hamilton. During this stint he travelled in the United States and Canada taking an interest also in studies on corals. He returned to teach in Frankfurt, spending time researching in the Senckenberg natural research society. In 1868 he published a study on silk production and papers on the geography and vegetation of the Bermudas.
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