Lin Mosei



Lin Mosei (born 30 October 1887, disappeared 11 March 1947) was a Taiwanese academic, educator, and the first Taiwanese to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. He was also a calligrapher and was a baptized Christian.

Lin disappeared within days of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan in 1947; he is generally believed to have been killed as a part of Chinese Nationalist Party's crackdown after the island-wide civilian uprising.

Lin's second son, Lin Tsung-yi, was an academic and educator in psychiatry.

Timeline

 * 1887 – Born in the city of Tainan-fu, Qing Taiwan (present-day Tainan, Taiwan), to a Presbyterian minister
 * 1916 – B.A. in philosophy from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university.
 * 1928 – M.A. in literature from Columbia University in New York. He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe.
 * 1929 – Ph.D. in education from Columbia. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems. The paper, written in English, was not translated into Chinese until 2000.
 * 1945 – Became Dean of Arts at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.
 * 1947 – Disappeared on March 11.