Luo Changpei

Luo Changpei (Chinese: 羅常培; Wade–Giles: Lo Ch'ang-p'ei; 9 August 1899 – 13 December 1958) was a Chinese linguist. He made important contributions to the study of historical Chinese phonology. He was also a pioneer of the modern studies of Chinese dialects and of non-Chinese languages in China.

Luo Changpei
罗常培
Born	(1899-08-09)9 August 1899 Beijing, Qing Empire
Died	13 December 1958(1958-12-13) (aged 59) Beijing, People's Republic of China
Alma mater	Peking University
Scientific career
Fields	Chinese linguistics
Institutions	Peking University
Notable students	Michael Halliday David Hawkes Yang Naisi
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	羅常培
Simplified Chinese	罗常培
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Luó Chángpéi Wade–Giles Lo Ch'ang-p'ei IPA [lwǒ ʈʂʰǎŋ.pʰěi]

Born into a Manchu family, he graduated from the Peking University. Besides spending some years in the United States as a visiting scholar, he spent most of his academic life at Peking University. Among his students there were the British scholars Michael Halliday and David Hawkes. In 1929, along with Y.R. Chao and Li Fang-kuei, he became a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology (歷史語言研究所) of Academia Sinica (then located at Nanjing). He also served as director of the Institute of Linguistics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences until his death in 1958.

Luo also co-authored a book on the 'Phags-pa script with Cai Meibiao (Chinese: 蔡美彪).