外山滋比古さん死去、９６歳　ベストセラー「思考の整理学」

　ベストセラー「思考の整理学」の著者で、お茶の水女子大名誉教授の英文学者、外山滋比古（とやま・しげひこ）さんが７月３０日午前７時１８分、胆管がんのため東京都内の病院で死去した。９６歳だった。愛知県出身。葬儀は近親者のみで済ませた。喪主は長女みどりさん。
　１９８３年に刊行し、８６年に文庫化された学術エッセー「思考の整理学」は１２４刷に達し、累計は２５３万部。東京大・京都大生協の書籍販売ランキングでたびたび１位を獲得するなど根強い人気を誇る。「知的創造のヒント」「親は子に何を教えるべきか」など著作は多数に上る。
　東京文理科大（現・筑波大）卒。「英語青年」編集長を経て、東京教育大（同）、お茶の水女子大などで教えた。専門は英文学や言語論。（2020/08/06-19:14）

Japanese author and academic Shigehiko Toyama, known for the best-seller "Shiko no Seirigaku" (Organizing of Thoughts), died of bile duct cancer at a Tokyo hospital on July 30, it was learned Thursday. He was 96.
   Born in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, Toyama, a graduate of Tokyo University of Literature and Science, now the University of Tsukuba, was scholar of English literature and professor emeritus of Ochanomizu University.
   Shiko no Seirigaku, an academic essay first published in 1983 and published in paperback in 1986, has been printed 124 times with a total of 2.53 million copies. It has a strong following, often ranking first among books sold at the co-op stores of the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University.
   Toyama had been an editor-in-chief of "Eigo Seinen," a monthly journal on English literature before teaching at Ochanomizu University and Tokyo University of Education, now the University of Tsukuba.