Witold Rodziński

Witold Rodziński (5 October 1918 – 18 December 1997) was a Polish historian, sinologist and diplomat.

Witold Rodziński
Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office 1960–1965
Preceded by	Eugeniusz Milnikiel
Succeeded by	Jerzy Morawski
Poland Ambassador to China
In office 1966–1969
Preceded by	Stanisław Kiryluk
Succeeded by	Franciszek Stachowiak
Personal details
Born	(1918-10-05)October 5, 1918 Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	Columbia University
Profession	Diplomat, historian, sinologist

He was born in 1918 in Lemberg, son of the conductor Artur Rodziński. He studied at the Columbia University, was an official at the United Nations 1945–47, and adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1947–48, a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and the Central Committee of the Higher School of Pedagogy in Warsaw.

From 1958 to 1971 he was assistant professor at the Department of History of the University of Warsaw.

He was the Polish Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1960–65 and to the People's Republic of China 1966–69.

Rodziński was the author of the monumental History of China, published in English as The Walled Kingdom: A History of China from Antiquity to the Present.

He died in December 1997, aged 79.

Bibliography

• Ludwik Bazylow (ed.), Wykaz profesorów i docentów Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Dane biograficzne, „Roczniki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego”, tom 10, 1971, p. 101.