Luo Jialun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luo Jialun

Chinese educator, civil servant and diplomat

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1897

Place of Birth: Jinxian County, Jiangxi, China

Date of Death: 25-Dec-1969

Profession: politician, diplomat, historian, educator

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Luo Jialun (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Luó Jialún; Wade–Giles: Lo Chia-Luen; December 21, 1897 - December 25, 1969) Chinese Minister of Education, historian, diplomat and political activist.
A noted Scholar, he was one of the leaders of the May Fourth Movement in 1919.
Subsequently being distinguished as President of various prestigious Chinese universities in the inter-war period.
In the autumn of 1946 he was appointed by the Nationalist Government as China's first Ambassador to India, a full year before India gained sovereignty from the United Kingdom/British Empire.
His tenure as Ambassador saw the escalation of the Chinese Civil War and subsequent retreat to Taiwan, of the Nationalist Forces under Chiang Kai-Shek, from whom the Indian Government withdrew diplomatic recognition, according it instead to the victorious Communists under Mao Tse-tung.
Luo remained in India till 1952 when he rejoined his family on Taiwan, where they had retreated with the Nationalists.
He continued to live there in his retirement. On 29 May 2018, the asteroid 204711 Luojialun was named in his honor.