蔡元培(1868—1940),浙江绍兴人,字鹤卿,号孑民,清光绪进士。曾留学与考察日本、法国、德国等国家。从清朝来年起,曾任绍兴中西学堂监督,上海南洋公学特别班教习,在上海创办爱国女学,自任校长。后在北京译学馆任教国文和西洋史。辛亥革命之后的1912年,被任命为南京临时政府的教育总长。1917年起,当他五十一岁的时候,正式就任北京大学校长。1919年任我国第一所 Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), Shaoxing, Zhejiang, word crane Qing, No. Jie Min, Guangxu Jinshi. Had studied and inspected Japan, France, Germany and other countries. From the year after the Qing dynasty, he served as a supervisor of Western and Chinese schools in Shaoxing and a special class in Shanghai Nanyang Public School. She founded a patriotic female school in Shanghai and became the president of the school. After translating in Beijing Institute of Chinese and Western history taught. In 1912 after the Revolution of 1911, he was appointed education chief of the interim government in Nanjing. Since 1917, when he was 51, he officially became president of Peking University. 1919, the first of our country