Caspar Schamberger (1623 to 1706) was a German surgeon born in Leipzig whose name is tied to the first school of Western medicine in Japan and the beginning of rangaku, or Dutch studies. He began studying surgery under the master surgeon of the Leipzig surgeons guild in 1637, finished his training three years later and travelled through northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. In 1643 he signed a four year contract with the Dutch East India Company and sailed for Asia, surviving a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope. After service as a ship surgeon he reached Nagasaki in 1649 and worked at the Dutch trading post on Dejima, where he came to treat high-ranking Japanese patients in Edo.
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(1 September 1623 in Leipzig, Germany, 8 April 1706) was a German surgeon
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was a German surgeon
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was a German surgeon
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His name represents the first school of Western medicine in Japan and the beginning of rangaku, or Dutch studies.
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