Qin and Han · Historian and Scholar

Ban Biao 班彪

Attested AD 25 - AD 36

Passages
8
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Ban Biao as a historian, official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 8 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ban Biao 班彪 Ban Biao
Personal name Ban Biao
Personal name Ban Biao 班彪 Ban Biao
Personal name Biao
Courtesy name Shuipi 叔皮 Shuipi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Writer

Life and dates

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 建武初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 36
    Explicit event contextual date · houhanshu:034:s0065

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 117Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 7 passages
Book of Later Han, Chapter 34Volume 30a: Biographies of Su Jing; Yang Hou · 1 passage