著者

石田 文彦 小島 浩治

出版者

日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.215, pp.154-164, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This study attempts to grasp the actual situation of the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka (Industrial Chemistry Course) in Niigata School and also deals with the process and background of closing in 1880, 4 years after its establishment. 56 students were admitted to the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka in total and 17 students completed this course. The main academic subject was analytical chemistry and the promotion of the textile industry and the petroleum industry was targeted. In the Niigata Prefectural Assembly, the closing of the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka was decided for the reason that the major industry of Niigata Prefecture is agriculture and industrial chemistry is not so pressing and students are a few in reality. Local leaders, members of the Prefectural Assembly, who actually promote policy standing between local officials and local inhabitants and best know the community, believe that a policy promoting industry by means of industrial chemistry, proposed by local government officials is impractical and the actual requisite is agriculture. Investigating the situation of the textile industry and the petroleum industry in Niigata Prefecture in those days, we pointed out that both industries were not in a situation to receive engineers who studied industrial chemistry and it was 1900's after about 25 years that these engineers were to be demanded.

著者

石田 文彦 小島 浩治

出版者

日本科学史学会

雑誌

科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.214, pp.99-107, 2000 (Released:2021-08-23)

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This study deals with the progress and background of establishing the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka (Industrial Chemistry Course) in Niigata School, the purpose of Hyakukou Kagaku Ka and its curriculums, etc. Niigata School for English-language was established by Governor Masataka Kusumoto in 1872, and it was the origin of secondary school in Niigata Prefecture. Kusumoto attempted to fix and develop secondary education with Niigata School, however, it became difficult to secure students owing to the competition with National Niigata School of English Studies established later. Governor Moriteru Nagayama, newly appointed under such circumstances, established the Hyakukou Kagaku Ka in Niigata School in 1876 with a model of the Seisaku Gaku Kyouzyou (Industrial Course) in National Tokyo Kaisei School with an intention of promoting the secondary education and industry in Niigata Prefecture. On the background where Niigata School and Hyakukou Kagaku Ka were established, we pointed out that Kusumoto and Nagayama, local government officials sent from the central government, had a policy achieving a national enrichment through promoting industry.