Witold Rodziński Explained

Witold Rodziński
Ambassador From:Poland
Country:United Kingdom
Term Start:1960
Term End:1965
Predecessor:Eugeniusz Milnikiel
Successor:Jerzy Morawski
Ambassador From2:Poland
Country2:China
Term Start2:1966
Term End2:1969
Predecessor2:Stanisław Kiryluk
Successor2:Franciszek Stachowiak
Birth Date:5 October 1918
Birth Place:Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Nationality:Polish
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Profession:Diplomat, historian, sinologist

Witold Rodziński (5 October 1918 – 18 December 1997) was a Polish historian, sinologist and diplomat.

He was born in 1918 in Lemberg, son of the conductor Artur Rodziński. He studied at the Columbia University, was an official at the United Nations 1945–47, and adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1947–48, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and the Central Committee of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Warsaw.

From 1958 to 1971 he was assistant professor at the Department of History of the University of Warsaw.

He was the Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1960–65 and to the People's Republic of China 1966–69.

Rodziński was the author of the monumental History of China, published in English as The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from Antiquity to the Present.

He died in December 1997, aged 79.

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