James Curtis Hepburn character introduction

James Curtis Hepburn

James Curtis Hepburn (Japanese name: ヘボン, 1815-1911), the late famous American movie star O'Day The grandfather of Leigh Hepburn (who won four Academy Awards), he translated old Japanese works into black editions or into plain text. He also wrote the book "Integrated with the English Lin" and designed the Japanese black edition romaji spelling scheme. He was also a missionary sent to Japan by the American Presbyterian Church during the Edo period for medical treatment and evangelism. After staying in Japan for 33 years, he returned to the United States in the fall of 1892.

Chinese name: James Curtis Hepburn

Foreign name: JamesCurtisHepburn

Alias: Heiben, plain text

Nationality: Germanic

Date of birth: March 13, 1815

Date of death: June 11, 1911

Occupation: Doctor, missionary

Graduation institutions: Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania

Faith: Christianity

Main achievements: Designed the black-book romaji spelling scheme for Japanese; founded Meiji Gakuin University

Representative work: "Integration with English Lin"

Character biography

James Curtis Hepburn (James Curtis Hepburn) is an American educationist and a native of Edo, Japan. Era was sent to Japan by the American Presbyterian Church as a medical and missionary missionary. The most common Japanese Latin pinyin method at present, the plain romaji (also known as the black script), was created by him. James Curtis Hepburn was born on March 13, 1815 and died on June 11, 1911.

After graduating from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania, James Curtis Hepburn went to Singapore for two years to wait for China to open up for missionary work after the Opium War. He arrived in Macau, China, in 1843, and soon moved to Xiamen for medical treatment and preaching. During this period, he preached under the Chinese name Hewen. Unable to adapt to the climate of Southeast Asia, he returned to China to practice medicine in 1845. In 1859, he determined to go to Japan for medical treatment and missionary work, and landed in Japan from Kanagawa with his wife Clara Mary, who had the same ambition. Hepburn conducted research on Japanese while pursuing his medical career, and wrote Japan's first Japanese-English dictionary "Wa-English Lin Collection", which was published under the name of American plain text. He also played an important role in the translation of the Japanese texts of the Old and New Testaments. At the same time, in 1863 (the 3rd year of Bunkyu), a private school was opened in Yokohama, hoping that Christian education would take root in Japan. After that, Pingwen Juku merged with other missionary schools of various Protestant denominations. In 1887 (Meiji 20), Hepburn invested his property in Shirogane, Minato-ku, Tokyo and merged it with Meiji Gakuin (currently Meiji Gakuin University and Dou High School), and became the first president of Meiji Gakuin. There were many educational activities from Heibunjuku to Meiji Gakuin, which supported many talents in Meiji Japan such as Takahashi Korekiyo, Hayashi, Shimazaki Fujimura and so on. After staying in Japan for 33 years, he returned to the United States in the fall of 1892 and died in 1911.

Experiences in China

After James Curtis Hepburn received his doctorate in medicine in the United States, he was ordained as a medical missionary by the Presbyterian Church in the United States. In the summer of 1841, he and his wife left for Singapore and arrived in mid-September. In the summer of 1843, he moved to Macau. That year Hepburn was allowed to join the Medical Missionary Society and went to Xiamen in early October, but was forced to return due to bad weather. He came to Hong Kong again on the 14th and finally arrived at his destination on November 25th. In late January, he opened a hospital in Xiamen. Due to Mrs. Hepburn's poor health, she had to change her living environment. They went to Macau at the end of that year, and on December 6, they met with Rev. J. L1oyd) returned to Xiamen together. However, this trip did not achieve the expected results, so on June 28, 1845, they left Xiamen again and went south, then returned to the United States. After that, Dr. Hepburn practiced medicine in New York and traveled widely. It was not until the recent opening of Japan that he came to the East again as a medical missionary sent to Japan by the American Presbyterian Church. In 1859, the Hepburns arrived in Shanghai, and then departed from Shanghai to Kanagawa, Japan. In September and October of 1860, he went to Kanagawa once, but then returned to Kanagawa, and returned to the United States in the autumn of 1892

Main Contributions

Bunshi Romaji

Pingwen (ヘボンHebon) Romaji (also known as Black Romaji) was designed by the Reverend James Curtis Hepburn to use Roman letters to mark Japanese pronunciations. This notation method was first used in his Japanese-English dictionary published in 1867.

Meiji Gakuin University was founded

Meiji Gakuin University is a well-known private university headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Its predecessor was the Meiji Law School established in 1881 by Tatsuo Kishimoto, Hiro Miyagi, and Nao Yashiro. In 1920, it was renamed Meiji Gakuin University. After the academic reform in 1949, the school became a new university. Meiji Gakuin University is a Japanese private Christian university with two campuses in Tokyo and Yokohama. It was first founded in 1863.

The Rev. James Curtis Hepburn was one of the school's founders and served as its first president. The school song of Meiji Gakuin University was composed by Shimazaki Fujimura, a graduate of the school.