Hatano Seiichi

Hatano Seiichi (born July 21, 1877, Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture, Japan—died Jan. 17, 1950, Tokyo) was a Japanese scholar and author of pioneering works on Christianity and Western philosophy that were widely studied in Japanese universities. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1899, Hatano became the first professor to teach the history of Western philosophy at Tokyo Semmon Gakkō (now Waseda University). He studied in Germany from 1904 to 1907 and returned to become a...