Witold Rodziński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Witold Rodziński

historian

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1918

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1997

Profession: diplomat, historian, linguist, sinologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Witold Rodzinski (5 October 1918 – 18 December 1997) was a Polish historian, sinologist and diplomat. He was born in 1918 in Lviv, son of the renowned conductor Artur Rodzinski.
He studied at the Columbia University, was an official at the United Nations 1945–47, and adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1947–48, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and the Central Committee of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Warsaw. From 1958 to 1971 he was assistant professor at the Department of History of the University of Warsaw. He was the Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1960–65 and to the People's Republic of China 1966–69. Rodzinski was the author of the monumental History of China, published in English as The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from Antiquity to the Present. He died in December 1997, aged 79.