Cuī Yòufǔ 崔祐甫 (721–780)
Mid-Dàlì / early-Dézōng-period chief minister and prose stylist. Native of Bólíng 博陵 Ānpíng 安平 (modern Ānpíng xiàn in Héběi), of the Bólíng Cuī clan, one of the most distinguished aristocratic lineages of medieval China. Jìnshì of Tiānbǎo 9 (750). Successively zǐbù lángzhōng 司部郎中, Mìshūshěng zhèngzì 秘書省正字, and (after the An Lùshān rebellion) a series of court appointments culminating in zhōngshū shìláng 中書侍郎 tóngzhōngshūménxiàpíngzhāngshì 同中書門下平章事 (= zǎixiàng) under Dézōng (779–780). Died in office in Jiànzhōng 1 (780), aged 60.
He is mentioned in Kanripo principally as the author of the Dúgū gōng shéndào míng 獨孤公神道銘 — the funerary spirit-way inscription appended to the Pílíng jí KR4c0034 of Dúgū Jí 獨孤及 (Cuī’s contemporary and fellow Dàlì prose stylist). His own collected works are largely lost; the surviving fragments are gathered in Quán Táng wén 全唐文.
CBDB confirms 721–780 (cbdbId 32279); the catalog meta’s “唐” without dates is incomplete; standard reference works follow CBDB.