Pǔ Qǐlóng 浦起龍 (1679–c. 1762), zì Èrtián 二田, hào Shāncēng 山傖. Native of Wúxī 無錫 (modern Jiāngsū). Promoted jìnshì in Yōngzhèng 2 (1724, jiǎchén) and appointed Instructor at the Sūzhōu prefectural school (Sūzhōu fǔ jiàoshòu 蘇州府教授), the only government office he ever held. He was an exemplar of the early-Qiánlóng scholar-instructor type: minor official rank, limited income, working life centred on textual editing and commentary.
Pǔ is remembered today for two principal works. The first is the KR2o0002 Shǐtōng tōngshì 史通通釋 (1750), the standard Qing annotated edition of 劉知幾’s KR2o0001 Shǐtōng 史通 — for nearly three centuries the editorial backbone of Shǐtōng studies. The second is the Dúshī xīnjiě 讀杜心解 (1724), a heart-grasp interpretation of the poetry of Dù Fǔ 杜甫 that supplements and at points contests Qiú Zhào’áo’s 仇兆鰲 Dùshī xiángzhù 杜詩詳注; it remains a standard scholarly companion to Dù Fǔ’s collected verse.
Pǔ also produced minor commentaries on the Mèngzǐ and on Lù Jī 陸機’s Wén fù 文賦, and a study of the Yìjīng (Yì jiào 易校), but these are little circulated. He died in retirement in his native Wúxī. CBDB id 87762 records his birth as 1679; his death year is given variously between 1761 and 1762 in modern reference works (the catalog meta gives 1679–1762, here followed).