Roman Malek (3 October 1951 – 29 November 2019) was a Polish-born German professor and sinologist.
Born in Bytów, Polish People's Republic, Malek entered the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) in 1969.
He studied philosophy, theology, and comparative religions, completing a doctorate in Sinology (1984) and a Habilitationsschrift on the Chinese theologian Wu Leichuan (2003), both at the University of Bonn.
[2] In 2018, he moved back to his native Poland and died due to illness on 29 November 2019.
[1] A bibliography of his 970 works can be found in the two-volume festschrift produced in his honor, Rooted in Hope (2017).