胡绳先生,是文史哲皆通的马克思主义理论家、哲学家、史学家,在国内外享有盛誉,被社会科学界视为一代宗师。胡绳1918年出生于江苏苏州。幼年从父而学,小学读了二年后就读于苏州中学、上海复旦中学,在北京大学哲学系学习一年后于1935年自动退学,从此开始了自学、研究、写作的学术生涯。可以说他是自学成才的典型。三、四十年代,他边学习边撰文著书,参与党的文化工作和诸多刊物报纸的编辑或主编工作。他青年时代的作品,为在思想文化界和知识青年中传播马克思主义产生了广泛的影响。新中国诞生时,他作为社会科学界的代表出席全国政协第一届会议。他长期在党的宣传、研究、文献部门工作。1985年—1998年任中国社会科学院院长,其间任国务院学位委员会副主任,香港、澳门基 Mr. Hu Sheng, a Marxist theorist, philosopher and historian of both literature and history, enjoyed a good reputation both at home and abroad and was regarded as a great master by the social science community. Hu Sheng was born in 1918 in Suzhou, Jiangsu. After studying in his childhood, he studied at Suzhou Middle School two years later and Fudan Middle School in Shanghai. After graduating from Philosophy Department of Peking University one year later, he dropped out of school in 1935 and started his academic career of self-study, research and writing. It can be said that he is a typical self-taught. In the 1940s and 1940s, while studying and writing, he read books and participated in the party’s cultural work and editor or chief editor of newspapers and periodicals. His work in his youth has had a widespread impact on the dissemination of Marxism among the ideological, cultural and intellectual youth. When New China was born, he attended the first session of the CPPCC as the representative of the social sciences. He has long been working in the propaganda, research and documentation departments of the party. 1985-1988 Dean of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, during which time appointed the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, deputy director, Hong Kong, Macao base