Luo Zhenyu

Luo Zhenyu, also Romanized as Lo Chen-yü (; August 8, 1866 – May 14, 1940), courtesy name Shuyun , was a Chinese classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian and Qing loyalist.

Biography A native of Huai'an, Luo began to publish works of agriculture in Shanghai after the First Sino-Japanese War. With his friends, he set up Dongwen Xueshe , a Japanese language teaching school in 1896. One of the students was Wang Guowei.

Luo first visited Japan in 1901 to study the Japanese educational system. From 1906 onwards, he held several different government posts, mostly related to agriculture. From April 1909 to February 1912 he was president of the Imperial Agricultural College. Being a loyalist to the Qing Dynasty, he fled to Japan after the Xinhai Revolution, residing in Kyoto and doing some research on Chinese archaeology.