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饒宗頤（1917年8月9日—2018年2月6日），字固庵、伯濂、伯子，號選堂，齋名梨俱室，廣東潮安（今潮州）人，是近代華人學術界罕見的通儒，被尊稱為「饒公」。他父親饒鍔是潮州著名學者兼商人，所建的天嘯樓是當時潮州最大的藏書樓，藏書近十萬卷，少年饒宗頤自幼浸淫其中。年僅十四歲，他就寫成《顧亭林學案》，轟動一時；十八歲時又續修完成父親未竟的著作《潮州藝文志》，刊於《嶺南學報》，開始在學界嶄露頭角。他沒有正式讀過大學，卻憑藉家學與自學成家，研究範圍遍及甲骨學、敦煌學、簡帛學、古文字、史學、詞學、宗教、藝術史與中外文化交流，學界把他與北方的季羨林並稱「南饒北季」。
1949年，饒宗頤移居香港，1952年起任教於香港大學中文系，歷任講師、高級講師與教授，講授目錄學、文字學、《楚辭》及漢魏六朝文學，在港大執教至1968年。其後他轉赴新加坡國立大學任教，1973年起出任香港中文大學中文系講座教授，退休後仍任名譽教授；1978年退休後，他曾赴法國巴黎高等研究院宗教部任客座教授一年。他亦先後任教於中山大學等院校，並在印度、法國等地從事研究。
饒宗頤著作等身，出版專著逾八十種、學術論文數百篇，代表作品包括《敦煌白畫》、《敦煌書法叢刊》、《選堂集林》與《饒宗頤二十世紀學術文集》等。2000年，他獲香港特區政府頒授大紫荊勳章（GBM）；他亦是俄羅斯國際歐亞科學院院士，並獲法國法蘭西學院漢學儒林特獎；1982年獲香港大學頒授名譽文學博士。他同時是書畫家，早年研習任頤真跡，晚年以荷花、山水見稱，筆墨融合書法與繪畫。2011年，他獲選為西泠印社第七任社長。饒宗頤治學宏闊，早年以治地方史志為主，中年兼治四裔交通及出土文獻，壯年由中國史擴大到印度、西亞以至人類文明史，晚年則致力探求中國精神史。1959年出版的《殷代貞卜人物通考》是他甲骨學的代表作，詞學方面著有《詞籍考》，敦煌學方面則有《敦煌白畫》等。他通曉多種語言，曾任印度班達伽東方研究所研究員，又走訪日本、法國、德國等漢學重鎮，與各地學者交流。香港大學設有饒宗頤學術館，收藏其書畫與藏書；他先後獲香港大學等十多所大學頒授榮譽博士，並獲香港藝術發展局終身成就獎。他與香港淵源深厚，自1949年定居後數十年間不斷從事學術研究與藝術創作，被譽為「香港之光」。他對甲骨學、敦煌學與詞學均開風氣之先，被視為二十世紀中國學術的一座高峰；晚年他自號「梨俱室」，以書畫會友，所繪荷花別具一格，人稱「饒荷」。2018年2月6日，他在香港離世，享年一百歲。
English
Jao Tsung-i (9 August 1917 - 6 February 2018), styled Gu'an, Bolian and Bozi and known by the sobriquet Xuantang, was born in Chao'an, Guangdong (now Chaozhou) and was among the most wide-ranging Chinese scholars of modern times, widely honoured as Jao Gong. His father Jao E was a noted Chaozhou scholar and merchant whose Tianxiao Lou library, the largest in the region, held close to 100,000 volumes; the young Jao grew up among them. At fourteen he completed A Study of Gu Tinglin, which caused a stir, and at eighteen he finished his father's unfinished Chaozhou Yiwenzhi, or Catalogue of Chaozhou Literature, published in the Lingnan Journal, marking his entry into scholarship. He never attended university yet became a self-taught master whose work covered oracle-bone studies, Dunhuang studies, bamboo and silk manuscripts, palaeography, history, ci poetry, religion, art history and East-West cultural exchange; he is often paired with Ji Xianlin as Jao in the South, Ji in the North.
He settled in Hong Kong in 1949 and from 1952 taught in the Chinese department of the University of Hong Kong, rising from lecturer to senior lecturer and professor and teaching bibliography, philology, the Chu ci and Six Dynasties literature until 1968. He then taught at the National University of Singapore, and from 1973 served as chair professor of Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, remaining an emeritus professor after retirement. After retiring in 1978 he spent a year as a visiting professor in the religious studies section of the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes in Paris, and he also taught at Sun Yat-sen University and researched in India and France.
Jao published more than eighty books and hundreds of papers, including Dunhuang Baihua, the twenty-nine-volume Dunhuang Calligraphy Series, the Xuantang Collected Works and his Twentieth-Century Academic Anthology. His 1959 Oracle-Bone Diviners of the Yin Dynasty is a landmark of oracle-bone scholarship, and he also wrote on ci poetry and Dunhuang art. In 2000 he received the Grand Bauhinia Medal; he was also a member of the Russian Academy of Eurasian Sciences and received the Prix Stanislas Julien of the Academie francaise, and in 1982 the University of Hong Kong awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters. A painter and calligrapher who had studied Ren Yi's works in his youth, he was known in later years for lotus and landscape paintings. In 2011 he was elected the seventh president of the Xiling Seal Society. He died in Hong Kong on 6 February 2018, aged 100.
