Hans Willer (1935-2019)
Alias:
Dr. Hans Willer Laale, PhD
Hans Willer Laale
羅漢思
Birthplace:
Taarbaek, Denmark
Born:
April 20, 1935
Died:
October 22, 2019
Dr. Hans Willer Laale, PhD. was born at Taarbaek, a town North of Copenhagen in Denmark, on April 20th, 1935. He completed his high school education from Torben Brex Boarding School in 1949 and joined a trade career as a sailor on Skoleskibet “Denmark” which had taken him to explore Africa in his teenage years of 1951 and 1952 and his very first visit to Canada in 1953. Hans’ academic credential began in the year 1956 when he decided to go over to the U.S. and attended Bob Jones University at Greenville, South Carolina. He earned his B.S. in Biology in 1959 and without wasting any time after his graduation, he migrated to Canada the same year. Hans began his graduate school in biological science at the University of Western Ontario in 1959 and received his master degree from UWO in 1961. The final hurdle of his triple jump landed at University of Toronto. Dr. Laale received his doctorate degree from UofT in Embryology the year 1966 and he started his teaching career as a professor at the University of Manitoba the same year upon his PhD graduation. Hans made three separate trips to the Far East as a visiting scholar. First, the Hong Kong Baptist College between 1961 to 1963; second, Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1966 to 1967 and Tunghai University in Taiwan the year 1973 to 1974. His Chinese name 羅漢思 was given by Johnny Tan in August 1961 and the name that he was so fond of which you could find a seal of this Chinese name on every single book that he used to own thereafter. Dr. Laale decided to retire from UofM as of January 1st, 1997 after 30 years of services that earned him 7 research works with 18 citations and 56 reads. As a senior scholar with a full professorship, Dr. Laale continued his writing career after his official retirement. He published three books: Once They Were Brave, The Men of Miletus in 2007; Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine XI in 2011; and The Seed, the Covenants and the Prophecies in 2017. He starred in The Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club in 2013.