Ren Jiyu

Ren Jiyu (April 15, 1916 - July 11, 2009), named Youzhi, male, was a native of Shandong Plain. He was a modern Chinese religious scientist, philosopher, historian, librarian, and academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences. Director of the National Library, President of the Chinese Religious Society, President of the Chinese Philosophy and History Society, Chairman of the Chinese Atheism Society, Librarian of the Central Library of Literature and History, and Representative of the Fourth to Eighth National People's Congress, etc. He is considered the founder of Chinese Marxist religious studies and one of the proposers of "Confucian Religion Theory".