2017-04-14
「林茂生博士紀念碑」碑文
林茂生（1887-1947）台南人，《民報》社長、台大文學院代理院長。
1916年畢業於日本東京帝國大學，成為台灣人第一位文學士。1927年到美國哥倫比亞大學留學，1929年取得哲學博士學位，是台灣人獲文科博士第一人。他致力於台灣人能在自由環境接受新式教育為目標。1945年10月創設《民報》並擔任社長，起用日治時期活躍於台灣的民族與社會運動者。為民喉舌的《民報》，在國民政府治理台灣所帶來的政治、經濟、民生、社會文化的貪腐情況，有忠實記載並鍼砭報導。他以辦報的方式，盼望對社會產生教育的功能。
林茂生雖消逝於1947年228事件緊接的3月大屠殺，他終其一生奉獻於教育的志業，以報業為台灣人民主持公理、公義的精神，是台灣人應追隨的台灣建國精神。
Lin, Mao-sheng(1887-1947) was a Tainan-born educator, a publisher of
“Min Bao” newspaper and an Acting Dean of College of Liberal Arts of
National Taiwan University. In 1916, he graduated from the Imperial
University of Tokyo, Japan and became the first Taiwanese obtained
Bachelor of Arts. In 1927, he studied at Columbia University. Then, he
earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1929 and became the first
Taiwanese obtained Doctor of Philosophy of Liberal Arts. An open and
free education system for the people of Taiwan is his lifetime
aspiration. In October 1945, he founded “Min Bao” and employed activists
of Taiwan national and social movements in the period of Japanese rule.
“Min Bao” documented faithfully and reported critically on the problems
of political, economic, social and cultural corruption inflicted by
Nationalist government. In doing so, he hoped to educate people and
raise their awareness of the crux of the problems.
Although he died in March Massacre soon after 228 Incident, his lifetime
devotion to education and his journalistic free spirit of upholding
truth and justice for the people of Taiwan are the spirit of building up
Taiwan nation that people should follow.
2013-02-28
延伸閱讀：
【好文精選】校園與社會的教育家林茂生
專訪／林茂生女兒林詠梅建言蔡總統，盼推「台灣正名」
聖山簡介
