Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Scholar and Teacher

Kong Fan 孔璠

Attested AD 495 - AD 515

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Kong Fan was a scholar and Teacher.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 515 其年（延昌四年）
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 96, passage 226
AD 495 to AD 515 初師事小學博士孔璠
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 96, passage 82
AD 501 年十八
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 96, passage 229

Career and standing

Erudite of Elementary Learning 小學博士
Held
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passage 82
Erudite of the Four Gates Elementary School 四門小學博士
Held
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passages 226, 229

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Under
Strongly inferred · Book of Wei 96, passage 226

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Mode quotation Speaker Kong Fan (孔璠)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passages 226-249

Events and relationships

Relation Teacher of · Person Li Mi (李謐)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passage 229
Relation Teacher of · Person Li Mi (李謐)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 96, passage 82

References in the histories

Book of Wei, Chapter 96Volume 90: Retired Officals: Sui Kua, Feng Liang, Li Mi, Zheng Xiu · 6 passages

初師事小學博士孔璠。 At first he studied under the Erudite of Elementary Learning, Kong Fan.

數年後，璠還就謐請業。 Years later Fan himself came to Mi to seek instruction.

其年，四門小學博士孔璠等學官四十五人上書曰：「竊見故處士趙郡李謐：十歲喪父，哀號罷隣人之相； That year Kong Fan, Erudite of the Four Gates Elementary School, and forty-five academic officers memorialized: "We observe the former recluse Li Mi of Zhao: at ten he lost his father and wailed until neighbors ceased condoling one another;

年十八，詣學受業，時博士即孔璠也。 At eighteen he came to study; the erudite then was Kong Fan himself.

為璠等判析隱伏，垂盈百條。 For Fan and others he resolved hidden difficulties—more than a hundred items.

況璠等或服議下風，或親承音旨，師儒之義，其可默乎！」 How much more Fan and others, some submitting to his teaching, some hearing him in person—how could teacher and student stay silent!"