Fang Hao

Fang Hao

Fang Hao (1910-1980), historian, Catholic priest. He was born in Hang County, Zhejiang Province (now Hangzhou), with the pen names of Fanglu, juechen and shenglao. Born in an Anglican family. Later he converted to Catholicism.

Teaching experience

In 1922, he entered a Catholic monastery in Hangzhou to study Latin, accepted religious cultivation, and studied literature and history.

In 1929, he joined Ningbo St. Paul theological college to study philosophy and theology, as well as Bible, dogma and history of religion.

Jin duo became a priest in 1935. In 1935, he began to preach in Jiaxing, Jinhua, Wuyi, Yongkang, Tangxi and other counties, and engaged in the study of song history.

In 1938, he went to Yunnan and helped bin Shuji to resume the publication of Yishi Bao.

Social Appointments

Fang Hao was a professor and Dean of Zhejiang University and Fudan University. In 1940, he went to Taiwan as a professor in the Department of history of Taiwan University, and served as an instructor and director of the Catholic Church. He once served as a member of the academic review committee of the Ministry of education, a member of the examination institute, and a member of the academic committee of China strategy. He served three consecutive terms as chairman of the Chinese History Society of Taiwan, President of the school of Arts and Sciences of Chengchi University, and a member of the Academia Sinica. He has devoted himself to the study of Chinese history and the history of communication between China and the West. He has participated in international academic conferences held by Germany, France, Italy, Australia and Japan.

Fang Hao was elected as a member of Academia Sinica in 1969. In July 1975, Pope Paul VI awarded honorary bishop the title of "masked".

Papers and works

He died in Taipei on December 20, 1980. His works include the history of communication between Chinese and foreign cultures, the history of Chinese Catholicism, the history of Song Dynasty, the history of communication between China and the west, the biography of Chinese Catholicism, Fang Hao's sixty self draft, Ma Xiangbo's anthology, and the mixture of Chinese and Western blood in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.