Leopold Leeb was born in Austria in 1967. After theological studies in Austria and language training in Taiwan he obtained a doctorate in Chinese philosophy from Peking University in 1999. Since 2004 he has been teaching the European classical languages (Latin, Greek, Hebrew) at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China. Living and working in Beijing since 1995 he has translated and published a number of books in Chinese, English, and German, among them textbooks for Latin and Greek, several studies concerning the history of Catholicism in China, and a dictionary of the history of Christianity in China. Among his more recent works is the translation of He Guanghu's Sino-Christian Theology. Born in Sorrow, Grown in Grief (2020).