Gù Dònggāo 顧棟高 (1679–1759), zì Zhèncāng 震滄, also styled Fùchū 復初, was a Kāngxī-Qiánlóng-period scholar and Chūnqiū / Shī specialist, native of Wúxī 無錫 (Chángzhōu 常州 prefecture, modern Jiāngsū 江蘇).
He passed the jǔrén in Kāngxī 59 gēngzǐ (1720) and was appointed Nèigé zhōngshūshèrén 內閣中書舍人 (Drafter of the Grand Secretariat). In Qiánlóng 16 xīnwèi (1751) he was nominated by special imperial recommendation under the jīngxué (classical learning) summons and appointed Guózǐjiān sīyè 國子監司業 (Vice-Director of the Imperial Academy); subsequently honored with the title of Guózǐjiān jìjiǔ 國子監祭酒 (Director of the Imperial Academy). He died at home.
His most famous work is the Chūnqiū dàshì biǎo 春秋大事表 (Tabulation of Major Events of the Chūnqiū period; printed in 1748) in 50 juǎn — the standard pre-modern systematic tabulation of the political, geographical, genealogical, and institutional state of the Spring-and-Autumn-period feudal world; he also wrote a Bǔ Shàngshū 補尚書 (Supplements to the Shàngshū) and a substantial body of poetry. His Shī-class works in the Kanripo corpus are the Máo Shī lèi shì 毛詩類釋 (KR1c0060) in 21 juǎn with a 3-juǎn continuation — completed in Qiánlóng 17 rénshēn (1752) and the continuation in Qiánlóng 18 guǐyǒu (1753).
CBDB id 66061 confirms 1679–1759. The standard reference for his Chūnqiū work is Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, where the Chūnqiū dàshì biǎo is identified as compiled by “the classical scholar Gu Donggao 顧棟高 (1679–1759) and printed in 1748”.