蔡元培（1868-1940），字鶴卿，又字仲申、民友、孑民，乳名阿培，並曾化名蔡振、周子余，漢族，浙江紹興山陰縣人。革命家、教育家、政治家、民主進步人士。中華民國首任教育總長。1916年至1927年任北京大學校長，革新北大 “學術”與“自由”之風。1920年至1930年，蔡元培同時兼任中法大學校長。

Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), courtesy names Heqing, Zhongshen, Minyou, and Jiemin, infant name A'pei, pseudonyms Cai Zhen and Zhou Ziyu, was a native of Shanyin County in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He was a revolutionist, educator, statesman, and pioneer in the study of Modern Chinese Ethnology. He was also the first Minister of Education in the provisional Republic of China. From 1916 to 1927, Cai  served as the president of Peking University and made pioneering reforms by advocating “academics” and “freedom”. From 1920 to 1930, he served as the president of China-French University.

　　北伐時期，國民政府奠都南京後，蔡主持教育行政委員會、籌設中華民國大學院及中央研究院，主導教育及學術體制改革。1928年至1940年，他專任中央研究院院長，貫徹對學術研究的主張。

During the Northern Expedition, he took charge of the Educational Administration Committee and prepared for the establishments of the University of the Republic of China and the Academia Sinica after Nanjing had been taken as the capital of the national government. He took the initiative in leading educational system and academic system reforms. From 1928 to 1940, he became the full-time president of the Academia Sinica and implemented his proposals for academic research.

　　蔡元培為人寬厚、惻隱為懷，對舊中國社會及陋俗有著透徹觀察。他兩度遊學歐洲、親炙文藝復興後的科學精神及法國大革命後的思潮。他提倡民權與女權，倡導自由思想，致力革除“讀書為官”的舊俗，開科學研究風氣，重視公民道德教育及附帶的世界觀、人生觀、美學教育。

Cai Yuanpei was good-natured and compassionate, who had a deep insight into the old Chinese society and its undesirable customs. During his two study tours in Europe, he closely experienced the scientific spirit of Post-renaissance and the ideologies after the French Revolution. He argued for civil rights, woman rights and free thoughts. He aslo committed himself to scientific research while trying to eliminate the old custom of “reading for powers and positions”. Meanwhile, he laid much emphasis on the civic education of virtues along with the education of people's world outlook, life outlook and aesthetic knowledge.

（中國網綜合 翻譯 尤迎寧）

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