Luo Changpei

Luo Changpei (Chinese: 羅常培/罗常培; courtesy name: Xintian 莘田) (1899 - 1958) was a Chinese linguist. He made important contributions to the study of historical Chinese phonology. He was also a pioneer of the modern studies of Chinese dialects and of non-Chinese languages in China.

Born into a Manchu family, he graduated from the Beijing University. Besides spending some years in the United States as a visiting scholar, he spent most of his academic life in the Beijing University. One of his students there was Michael Halliday. In 1929, along with Yuen Ren Chao and Li Fanggui, he became a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology (歷史語言研究所) of the Academia Sinica (then located at Beijing, i.e. the now Chinese Academy of Sciences). He also served as director of the Research Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until his death in 1958.

References

*zh icon [http://www.cass.net.cn/y_09/y_09_01/y_09_01_11.htm Biographical sketch]
*zh icon [http://www.millionbook.net/mj/l/laoshe/zw14/095.htm A memoir] by Laoshe (老舍)