Ren Jiyu (; born April 15, 1916 - died July 11, 2009) in Pingyuan County, Shandong Province was a

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, scholar in

religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, member of the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

, and honorary director of the

National Library of China The National Library of China (NLC) is the national library of China, located in Haidian, Beijing, and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It contains over 41 million items as of December 2020. It holds the largest collection of Chine ...

. He died at 4:30 on July 11, 2009, in Beijing, at the age of 93.

Main works

* Collection of Buddhist Thinking during the Han and Tang Dynasties, 1963 * A History of Chinese Philosophy (ed.), 4 vols., 1963 * A brief History of Chinese Philosophy, 1973 * History of the Development of Chinese Philosophy, 1983 * Chinese Daoist Philosophers, 1990 * Mozi and Mohist, 1994, reprinted 2009

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ren, Jiyu 1916 births 20th-century Chinese philosophers Chinese librarians History of Buddhism in China 2009 deaths Victims of the Cultural Revolution Writers from Dezhou 20th-century Chinese historians Historians from Shandong Philosophers from Shandong National University of Peking alumni Scholars of ancient Chinese philosophy