Shin Chae-ho

Shin Chae- ho ( born December 8, 1880 in Chongju, Chungcheongnam -do, at that time the Joseon, today's South Korea, † February 21, 1936 in Lüshunkou, then Republic of China, today People's Republic of China) was a Korean historian and independence activist against the Japanese rule and anarchist.

Life

Shin Chae -ho was born into a peasant family, but received a higher education. From 1898 to 1905 he studied at the Confucian Academy Seonggyungwan where he acquired a doctorate. He worked as a journalist for several newspapers and has published numerous novels. In 1907 he joined the independence movement founded in 1906 Shin Min Hee who fought for the sovereignty of the nation state Empire Korea after it was lost due to a protection agreement in 1905 in many areas. After the annexation of Korea by the Japanese Empire in 1910, he emigrated to China. 1923 Shin wrote the draft of the Korean Revolutionary Manifesto.

1927, the Eastern Anarchist Federation Shin at ( Kor. 동방 무정부주의 연맹 ,东方 无政府主义 联盟). He was arrested in 1928 in Taiwan and sentenced to ten years in prison in Dalian (then under Japanese management ). Shin died in 1936 in the prison of Lüshun of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Shin was of the view that Korean history is viewed from a Japanese perspective and therefore have attempted a new historiography in order to strengthen the Korean identity. With his works Doksa Shillok (English A New Reading of History ) and Joseon Sanggosa ( The Early History of Joseon ), he founded the first ethnically -based history of Korea. The myth of Tan'Gun he made it to the starting point of Korean history.

1962 Shin was posthumously awarded the Presidential Order of Merit for National Foundation. In 2009, he received an entry in the Korean family register and became recognized as a Korean citizen. Until then, he was officially recognized as a stateless person, because he had refused entry on the register under Japanese rule during his lifetime.