Ume Kenjiro was a Japanese legal scholar of the Meiji period who lived from 24 July 1860 to 26 August 1910. Alongside Hozumi Nobushige and Tomii Masaaki he is regarded as one of the fathers of Japan's modern civil code, which took effect in 1898; he served on the drafting committee formed in 1893 and championed a civil law modeled on French codification. He founded Tokyo Law School in 1894, the institution that became Hosei University, and served as its president from 1899. After Japan's annexation of Korea he helped codify Korean law, and he died of typhoid fever in Seoul in 1910 at the age of fifty.
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RoleLegal scholar in Meiji period Japan, and a founder of Hosei University 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Place of Death Classification
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Which side did Ume Kenjiro take in the Japanese Civil Code controversy?
He stood with the enforcement faction that backed the French-influenced Old Civil Code.
Ume Kenjiro was named with the enforcement faction in the Civil Code controversy, the side that wanted the draft code put into effect as planned rather than delayed. That draft, the Old Civil Code, was prepared mainly with the French jurist Gustave Boissonade and was strongly influenced by the French Civil Code. It was never enacted. The New Civil Code that followed is often described as influenced by the first draft of the German Civil Code, but the National Diet Library notes that two of its three authors had studied law in France.
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He was sent to study French at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and upon graduation was employed by the Ministry of Justice.
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Ume Kenjirō was a legal scholar in Meiji period Japan, and a founder of Hosei University.
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Together with Hozumi Nobushige and Tomii Masaaki, he is regarded as the father of Japan's civil law, which was put into effect in 1898.
In Legal System: Japanese Law, Introduction
Ume Kenjirō (梅 謙次郎; July 24, 1860, August 26, 1910) was a legal scholar in Meiji period Japan, and a founder of Hosei University.
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Wikidata Q3022470, P27 country of citizenship claim
P27 (country of citizenship): Japan
Wikidata Q3022470, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1860
Wikidata Q3022470, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1860-07-24
Wikidata Q3022470, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1910
Wikidata Q3022470, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1910-08-26
Wikidata Q3022470, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Matsue
Wikidata Q3022470, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Hanseongbu
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