Julius Karl Scriba (5 June 1848 – 3 January 1905) was a German surgeon serving as a foreign advisor in Meiji-period Japan, where he was an important contributor to the development of Western medicine in the country.

He graduated three years after the end of the war from the University of Heidelberg and practiced medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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Scriba was called upon by the Japanese government twice during particularly sensitive international incidents: the first time was after the Otsu Scandal, when Russian Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch (the future Tsar Nicholas II), was assaulted by a Japanese policeman in 1891; and the second time when the Chinese diplomat Li Hongzhang was shot while attending the Shimonoseki Peace Conference in 1895 which ended the First Sino-Japanese War.

Scriba died of a lung abscess in Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture in 1905, and was buried in the foreign section of Aoyama Cemetery in Tokyo.