Zhang Hengjia (張亨嘉)

Overview

Zhang Hengjia was an University Superintendent.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Xiejun	燮鈞	Xiejun
Posthumous name	Wenhou	文厚	Wenhou

Life and dates

Death

AD 1910 宣統二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 247

Attested activity

AD 1908 三十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 225, 246
AD 1897 二十三年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 225, 228
AD 1900 二十六年夏
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 225, 231
AD 1883 光緒九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 225
AD 1888 十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 225-226
AD 1862 to AD 1908 同、光
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 248, 252

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AD 1902 to AD 1904 學務處設
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 63
AD 1910 宣統二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 247

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Zhang Hengjia, née Huang (黃氏)
mother 母
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 243

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Career and standing

inner-palace classical scholar and tutor 典學內直
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 248, 252
general superintendent of the university 大學總監督
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 63
University Superintendent 大學總監督
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 235

Places and affiliations

At Houguan, Fujian 福建侯官
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 224

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1883 光緒九年 · Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 225

Events and relationships

Inspected Boxers
Investigation · Investigator
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passages 231-232
Succeeded in turn
Political · Official · With Zhang Renfu (張仁黼)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 252

Assessments and attributes

Assessment bearing still dimly discernible · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 252
Assessment especially earnest in clarifying law and cultivating learning · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 441, passage 252

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 441Volume 441 Biographies 228: Pan Zuyin, Li Wentian, Sun Yijing, Xia Tongshan, Zhang Jiaxiang, Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, Zhang Hengjia · 9 passages

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張英麟張仁黼張亨嘉 Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, and Zhang Hengjia

張亨嘉，字燮鈞，福建侯官人。 Zhang Hengjia, courtesy name Xiejun, was a native of Houguan in Fujian.

二十六年夏，親貴大臣信拳民有神術能攘外，飾詞入告，上疑之，命亨嘉察視。 In the summer of the twenty-sixth year, imperial kin and senior ministers believed the Boxers had divine arts that could repel foreigners; they embellished their reports; the emperor was doubtful and ordered Hengjia to investigate.

亨嘉知其不可恃，條上弭釁機宜甚悉，疏甫入而亂作。 Hengjia knew they could not be relied on and listed measures to quell the crisis in great detail; his memorial had just been received when disorder erupted.

尚書張百熙、榮慶既為學務大臣，別置大學總監督，亨嘉遂被命任校事，仍不離內廷職。 After Ministers Zhang Baixi and Rongqing became Ministers of Education, a separate post of University Superintendent was created; Hengjia was then ordered to manage university affairs while retaining his inner-court duties.

亨嘉為人敦實，嗜古精鑑賞。 Hengjia was solid and sincere in character, fond of antiquity and skilled in connoisseurship.

中興後命婦享高耄者，與詹事袁葆恆祖母郭氏二人而已。 After the restoration, only two titled ladies enjoyed such extreme longevity—Hengjia's mother and the grandmother Guo of Grand Mentor Yuan Baoheng.

宣統二年，卒，賜祭葬，諡文厚。 In Xuantong 2 he died; sacrificial burial was granted, and he was given the posthumous name Wenhou (Generous in Culture).

仁黼、亨嘉尤惓惓於明法修學，後先相望，其風采皆隱然可見焉。 Renfu and Hengjia were especially earnest in clarifying law and cultivating learning; succeeding one another in office, their bearing can still be dimly discerned.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 1 passage

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旋別設學務處，以張亨嘉爲大學總監督，百熙權益分。 Soon a separate Board of Educational Affairs was established, with Zhang Hengjia as general superintendent of the university, and Baixi's authority was correspondingly divided.