Zōu Hànxūn 鄒漢勛
Style name Shūjì 叔績. Native of Xīnhuà 新化 (Húnán). Born Jiāqìng 10 (1805); died Xiánfēng 3 (1853), killed in action against the Tàipíng Tiānguó forces at Lúzhōu 廬州 while serving on the staff of Jiāng Zhōngyuán 江忠源.
The leading philological geographer and historical chronologist of the early-nineteenth-century Húnán school, alongside Wèi Yuán 魏源 and Hé Xiūlíng 賀熙齡 (with whom he collaborated on the Dàoguāng Bǎoqìngfǔ zhì 道光寶慶府志). His scholarly range covered historical phonology, Hànshū Yìwénzhì studies, the Shuǐjīng zhù, the Yúgòng geography, and ancient calendrics; he was particularly noted for his bold programme of recovering the procedural basis of pre-Tàichū calendrical systems whose technical chapters had not survived in the standard histories. The present catalog preserves his Zhuānxū lì kǎo 顓頊曆考 (KR3fb001); he also wrote Yīn lì kǎo 殷曆考, Sìfēn shù 四分述, and a long series of philological treatises collected posthumously as Zōu Shūjì xiānsheng yíshū 鄒叔績先生遺書. Recipient of the jǔrén degree of Dàoguāng 29 (1849) at the unusually advanced age of forty-five — by which date much of his major scholarly work was already complete.