Qin and Han · General and Scholar

Deng Yu 鄧禹

Attested AD 25 - AD 57

Passages
2
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Deng Yu as a general, official, and scholar. This record brings together 2 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Deng Yu 鄧禹 Deng Yu
Surname Deng Deng
Personal Deng Yu 鄧禹 Dèng Yǔ
Given Yu Yu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • General
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: · Western Interval: Start: AD 25 · End: AD 57
    Strongly inferred · chenshu:018:s0176
  • Source Date: Text: 東漢初 · Western Year: AD 25
    Explicit · nanqishu:047:s0121

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: historian-comment · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0176

Events and relationships

  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: won-merit · Label: achieved military merit / 卒致軍功 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0176

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: began in literary study yet achieved military merit and lasting fame · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · chenshu:018:s0176

References in the histories

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Book of Chen, Chapter 18Volume 18: Shen Zhong; Yuan Bi; Liu Zhongwei; Lu Shancai; Wang Zhi; Wei Zai · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 47Volume 47 Biographies 28: Wang Rong, Xie Tiao · 1 passage