Ma Xiangbo
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| Ma Xiangbo | |
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| Other name(s): | Ma Liang |
| Born: | 1840 |
| Place of birth: | Dantu, Jiangsu |
| Died: | 1939 |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Denomination(s): | Catholic, Jesuit |
| Known for: | founded three Universities |
| Education: | Collège de Saint-Ignace, Shanghai |
| Occupation: | educator |
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Ma Xiangbo (Chinese: 馬相伯; 1840-1939), also known under his style Ma Liang (馬良), was a Chinese scholar and educator during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China.
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[edit] Biography
Ma was born in Dantu, Jiangsu province to a prominent Catholic family. At the age of 11, he enrolled in a Jesuit school in Shanghai, Collège de Saint-Ignace, where remained first as student and later as teacher until 1870. In 1870, he became an ordained member of the Jesuit order. In 1886/87, he visited France and eventually devoted his life to higher education.
Ma founded the following institutions of higher learning:
- Aurora Academy (Zhendan Xueyuan 震旦學院)(1903)
- Fudan Public School (Fudan Gongxue 復旦公學) (1905), literally meaning: a revived Aurora Public School
- Beijing Gongjiao Daxue 北京公教大學, later renamed Fu Jen Catholic University （Furen daxue 輔仁大學）, in co-operation with Ying Lianzhi 英斂之.
His idea of establishing a highest body of learning was eventually realized in 1928 by his close friend, the educator Cai Yuanpei, who established the Academia Sinica (Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan 中央研究院).
His brother, Ma Jianzhong, was a prominent official in the Qing government.
[edit] See also
- Article on Collège de Saint-Ignace in Chinese Wikipedia.
[edit] References
- Boorman, Howard L., Richard C. Howard, and Joseph K. H. Cheng, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
- Hayhoe, Ruth, and Lu Yongling, eds. Ma Xiangbo and the Mind of Modern China 1840-1939. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
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