Fan Ye

Fan Ye ( Chinese  范 曄 , W.-G. Fan Yeh ; * 398 ; † 445 ) was a Chinese historian who compiled the book of the Later Han .

Fan Ye was a member of the middle class of the Liu Song Dynasty . His grandfather was the head of an administrative district, his father an official at the imperial court. Fan Ye himself made it to the position of administrator and general of the Guard. His own political ambitions ultimately became his undoing: he was executed in 445 under Emperor Wen .

His history, which he had begun about 20 years earlier, remained unfinished due to his death: only 90 of the planned 100 chapters had been written. His work was originally supposed to include 10 chapters of annals of the emperors, 10 chapters of monographs and 80 biographical chapters. He never came back to compiling the monographs.

Later the commentator tried Liu Zhao (around 550 ) to close the gaps in work fan Yes, where he, among others, the history of the continuing Later Han Dynasty by Sima Biao ( 240 - 305 moved for information). He commented on this work and bound his eight monographs into 30 chapters in the book of the Later Han . Thanks to this measure, today's editions of the Book of the Later Han are 120 chapters.

literature

• Streffer, Johann Michael 1971. "The Chapter 86 (76) of the Hou Han Shu." Publishing house Alfred Kümmerle, Göppingen.

Web links

Wikisource: Fan Ye  - Sources and full texts (Chinese)