Background
Mr. Kao was born in Changle, Fujian, China, in 1876.
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Mr. Kao was born in Changle, Fujian, China, in 1876.
He graduated from the naval architecture department of the Naval Academy at the Fuzhou Naval Dockyard. Then Mr. Kao was sent to Belgium as a Government student, where he studied at the University of Brussels, graduating as Ingenieur Civil.
From Belgium, Kao Lou went to Germany and France where he worked in a number of factories and received practical training. After spending nine years in Europe, he returned to China in 1911. Mr. Kao joined the Kuomintang Party and participated in the revolutionary activities in Canton. In 1912 he was appointed secretary to Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the Nanjing Provisional Government. Later, Mr. Kao served as a director of the cadastral department in the Ministry of Interior in Nanjing.
Mr. Kao became a director of the Government Observatory in 1913. Kao Lou was appointed director of the Educational Mission in Europe in 1921. The following year he returned to China and resumed the directorship of Peking observatory.
Upon establishment of the National Government in Nanjing, he was appointed Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Education and made member of the Jiangsu Provincial Government in 1927. Later, Kao Loy was appointed director of the Government observatory at Nanjing. He acted as a Minister to France from 1928 till 1930. He was appointed Minister of Education in December 1930 and since September 1931 Mr. Kao became a member of the Control Yuan. Then he resumed his post as a president of the Chinese Astronomical Institute.
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