Lin Mosei (Chinese: 林茂生; pinyin: Lín Màoshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Bō͘-seng; born 30 October 1887, disappeared 11 March 1947) was a Taiwanese academic, educator, and the first Taiwanese to receive a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree.^[1][2] He was also a calligrapher^[3] and was a baptized Christian.

Lin disappeared within days of the February 28 Incident in Taiwan in 1947; he is generally believed to have been killed as a part of Chinese Nationalist Party's crackdown after the island-wide civilian uprising.

Lin's second son, Lin Tsung-yi, was an academic and educator in psychiatry.

1887 – Born in the city of Tainan-fu, Qing Taiwan (present-day Tainan, Taiwan), to a Presbyterian minister

1916 – B.A. in philosophy from the Tokyo Imperial University. He was the first Taiwanese graduate at the university.^[4]

1928 – M.A. in literature from Columbia University in New York. He studied under John Dewey and Paul Monroe.^[5]

1929 – Ph.D. in education from Columbia. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Public Education in Formosa Under the Japanese Administration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the Development and the Cultural Problems.^[6] The paper, written in English, was not translated into Chinese until 2000.

1945 – Became Dean of Arts at the National Taiwan University in Taipei.

1947 – Disappeared on March 11.