Teiso Esaki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Teiso Esaki

Japanese entomologist

Date of Birth: 15-Jul-1899

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 14-Dec-1957

Profession: entomologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Teiso Esaki (?? ??, Esaki Teizo, 15 July 1899 – 14 December 1957) was a Japanese entomologist.
He authored numerous texts and was one of the founding figures of entomology as a science in Japan.
He trained a generation of Japanese entomologists, founded the journal Zephyrus and published numerous papers on the insects of Micronesia.
He was especially interested in aquatic insects and erected the family Helotrephidae along with W.E.
China.Esaki was born in Tokyo and grew up in Osaka.
He went to high school at Kagoshima and went to the Tokyo Imperial University in 1920 and received a Ph.D.
in 1930.
He worked extensively on the heteroptera and focused on the Micronesian region.
From 1923 he taught at the College of Agriculture, Kyushu Imperial University, Fukuoka.
He left the next year and lived in Europe for about four and half years during which time he learned to speak German, Hungarian, Italian, French and Esperanto.
He worked with G.
Horvath on hemiptera at Budapest.
He married Charlotte Johanna Hermine Witte in Germany in 1928.
They moved back to Japan in 1929 and he became a professor of entomology in 1930 at Kyushu University.
His major contribution to entomology was the series Insects of Micronesia.
He also founded the Japanese journal Zephyrus.