Dates uncertain · Official and Scholar

Yi Ketan 伊克坦

Died AD 1923

Passages
7
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yi Ketan as an official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yi Ketan 伊克坦 Yi Ketan
Clan Guwalgiya 瓜爾佳氏
Posthumous Wenzhi 文直 Wenzhi
Courtesy Zhongping 仲平 Zhongping

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Teacher

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 癸亥 · Western Year: AD 1923 · Age: Value: 58 · Reckoning: sui
    Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0144

Attested activity

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Yuqing Palace tutor / 直毓慶宮 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
    Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0138
  • Label: Vice Censor-in-Chief / 都察院副都御史 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0092

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
    Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0092

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: loyal, upright, and far-sighted · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0141

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 7 passages
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有請達海從祀文廟者，伊克坦以達海創定國書，繙譯經史，有功聖教，允宜附祀，即為代奏，略言：「學官立於漢京，而配享實始於唐代，宋、元以來，迭有增祀，大率以闡明聖學，有功經訓為斷。 When a petition asked that Dahai be enshrined in the Confucian temple, Yi Ketan argued that Dahai had devised the national script and translated the classics, thus serving the Sage's teaching, and deserved collateral sacrifice; he memorialized on his behalf, noting briefly: "School officials dated to Han times but temple collateral sacrifice began in the Tang, and since Song and Yuan additions had generally honored those who expounded the Sage's learning and served the classics.