Qin and Han · Official and Writer

Ge Gong 葛龚

Attested AD 88 - AD 113

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ge Gong as an administrator, official, and writer. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ge Gong 葛龚 Ge Gong
Courtesy Yuanfu 元甫 Yuanfu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official
  • Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 和帝时 · Western Interval: Start: AD 88 · End: AD 105
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0262
  • Source Date: Text: 安帝永初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 107 · End: AD 113
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0264

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

  • Count: 12 · Works: prose, fu, stele texts, dirges, letters / 文、赋、碑、诔、书记
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0268
  • Kind: memorial · Role: author · Label: four convenient proposals / 便宜四事
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0264

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: nominee · Action: declined-summons-for-illness
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0265

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: praiseworthy administration in both counties · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0267
  • Kind: character · Statement: forthright, fierce; courage and strength surpassed others
    Explicit · houhanshu:089:s0263

References in the histories

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Book of Later Han, Chapter 89Volume 80a: Biographies of Writers 1 · 2 passages
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