He Zhaowu | |
Native Name: | 何兆武 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Date: | 14 September 1921 |
Birth Place: | Beijing, China |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Occupation: | Historian, translator |
Alma Mater: | National Southwestern Associated University |
Discipline: | Philosophy of history |
Sub Discipline: | History of Western Philosophy |
Workplaces: | Tsinghua University |
He Zhaowu (; September 14, 1921 – May 28, 2021) was a Chinese historian, translator, and professor at Tsinghua University.[1] He was proficient in English, French and German.
He was born in Beijing, on September 14, 1921, while his ancestral home was in Yueyang, Hunan.[2] In 1939, he was accepted to the National Southwestern Associated University, where he graduated in 1943. From 1956 to 1986, he worked at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as an assistant research fellow and then research fellow. In 1986, he joined the faculty of Tsinghua University. He was a guest professor at Columbia University and the University of Marburg. He died in Beijing, on May 28, 2021, aged 99.[3]