Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Li Jifu 李吉甫

Attested AD 807 - AD 814

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Jifu was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 807 to AD 814 吉甫踐天宰
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passage 270

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Li Qiyun (李棲筠)
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 270

Career and standing

chief minister 天宰
AD 807 to AD 814 吉甫踐天宰 · Held
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 270

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passage 270

Assessments and attributes

Assessment his counsel was sound, yet in remonstrating uprightness he fell short of his father · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 270

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 146Volume 146 Biographies 71: Two Li's · 1 passage

吉甫踐天宰，謀謨是矣，而鯁正有愧於父雲。 Jifu held the highest office and his counsel was sound, yet in the bone-spur uprightness of a loyal remonstrator he fell short of his father.