Roman Malek (3 October 1951 – 29 November 2019) was a
Polish
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professor and sinologist.
Biography
Born in
Bytów
Bytów (; csb, Bëtowò; formerly german: Bütow ) is a town in the Gdańsk Pomerania region of northern Poland with 16,730 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the capital of Bytów County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.
The origins of By ...
,
Polish People's Republic
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, Malek entered the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in 1969. He studied philosophy, theology, and comparative religions, completing a doctorate in
Sinology
Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to t ...
(1984) and a
Habilitationsschrift
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on the Chinese theologian
Wu Leichuan (2003), both at the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...
. Malek was a professor of philosophy and religious sciences at SVD Saint Augustin University of Philosophy and Theology and a sinology professor at the
University of Bonn
The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...
.
Malek was a prolific scholar, producing more than 970 academic pieces. Malek was also an experienced editor, overseeing the publication of 20 volumes of the journal ''
Monumenta Serica
''Monumenta Serica - Journal of Oriental Studies'' (Chin. 華裔學志, Huayi xuezhi) and for the web is an international academic journal of sinology. It is published by Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin. The editor-in-chief was unt ...
'' and editing three book series which produced 75 volumes.
In 2018, he moved back to his native Poland and died due to illness on 29 November 2019.
Works
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A bibliography of his 970 works can be found in the two-volume
festschrift
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produced in his honor, ''Rooted in Hope'' (2017).
References
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1951 births
2019 deaths
Religion academics
Christian missions in China
World Christianity scholars
History of Christianity in China
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Polish sinologists
Academic staff of the University of Bonn