Fàn Zǔyǔ 范祖禹 (1041–1098), zì Chúnfù 淳父 (sometimes 純父) and Mèngdé 夢得, was a Northern Sòng historian, classicist and Yuányòu-faction jīngyán lecturer. Native of Huáyáng 華陽 (in Chéngdū 成都, Sìchuān). Jìnshì of Jiāyòu 8 (1063); rose under Yīngzōng and Shénzōng to Tàicháng bóshì, then took service under Sīmǎ Guāng on the Zīzhì tōngjiàn project in the Luòyáng retirement (1071–1085) — the Táng portion of the Tōngjiàn is largely his work, and his independent Táng jiàn 唐鑑 in twelve juan, completed in the same period, gave him the cognomen Tángjiàn gōng. Under Zhézōng’s Yuányòu (1086–1094) he served as Hànlín xuéshì and Imperial Lecturer (shìjiǎng); Sū Shì 蘇軾 ranked him “first among lecturing officials.” With the Shàoshèng faction’s victory in 1094 he was demoted to Shǎnzhōu 陜州 and then exiled to Bīnhuà 賓化 (Sìchuān), where he died in 1098. Posthumously rehabilitated as Lóngtúgé xuéshì in Jiànyán 2 (1128). His works include the Táng jiàn 唐鑑, the Dì xué 帝學 (KR3a0021), and the Rénhuáng xùndiǎn 仁皇訓典 (lost). Biography: Sòng shǐ j. 337. CBDB id 7026, dates 1041–1098.