death_date home_town birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
27 march 1978 xiangtan , hunan province , china xiangtan , hunan province , china 02 february 1890 li jinxi
 li jinxi linguist , lexicographer , character reformer , educator
li jinxi

li jinxi -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- february 2 , 1890 - march 27 , 1978 in xiangtan , hunan province , china -rrb- is a chinese linguist and educator .
in 1911 , he graduated from the hunan teachers college .
he participated in the china alliance committee in his early years and launched the september 3rd society 九三学社 in 1946 .
he was the chief editor of changsha newspaper and professor of hunan no. 1 normal college .
after that he held the positions of the dean of the college of arts of beijing normal college -lrb- now beijing normal university -rrb- , peking university , yanjing university , the national northwest joint university -lrb- now northwest university -rrb- , hunan university and beijing normal university as the president of literary college .
after 1949 , he became the president of the chinese language college of beijing normal university , a committee member of the chinese academy of social sciences , a committee member of the chinese writing reform committee , and the standing committee of the september 3rd society .
he devoted his whole life studying and teaching language , making great achievements on the chinese grammar .
he made great contributions to the writing reform , and was regarded as `` the father of the chinese phonetic alphabet '' .
