Fàn Xuān 范宣 (fl. mid-fourth century), zì Xuānzǐ 宣子, native of Chénliú 陳留, Eastern-Jìn private-school classicist. His biography is in Jìn shū 91 (列傳 61, Rúlín, Fàn Xuān zhuàn). Repeatedly summoned to court but refusing all appointments, he settled in Yùzhāng 豫章 (modern Nánchāng, Jiāngxī) and taught privately; his school attracted hundreds of students from across the south-east and is one of the principal sources for the spread of southern Confucian classicism after the Yǒngjiā disaster.
His ritual scholarship is substantial: a Lǐ-yì 禮儀 commentary, the Lǐlùn dáwèn preserved in KR1d0102, and a Lǐjì fàn-shì yīn 禮記范氏音 (phonological commentary on the Lǐjì) preserved in KR1d0127. He was also the teacher of Dài Kuí 戴逵 the painter-musician (whose biography is paired with Fàn Xuān’s in Jìn shū 94).
His birth and death years are not given precisely in Jìn shū; he is documented in the Tài-yuán reign-period (376–396) and into the Yuán-xīng period (402–404), suggesting a life-span roughly c. 330 to c. 410. The dates are left blank here as no firm year is in the source. No CBDB id assigned in current dump.