Miào Quán sūn (English spelling)

Japanese: 繆荃孫 - びゅうせんそん（英語表記）Miào Quán sūn

1844‐1919
A Chinese bibliographer and archivist from the late Qing to the Republic of China. His pen name was Yanzhi, and he also went by the names Xiaoshan and Yifeng. He was from Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He was a Jinshi in 1876, presided over lectures at academies in Nanjing, Muyuan, Zhongshan, and other places, and founded the Jiangnan Library and the Jingshi Library. He was skilled in the study of epigraphy and cataloging, and published a collection of postscripts by Huang Pilie, but he was also known for his own collection of rare books. In addition to writing the Yifengtang Library, he published books from ancient times and modern times in series such as the Unjizai Ansoshu and Taiyu Lou Library.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1844‐1919
中国，清末から民国にかけての蔵書家，校勘学者。字は炎之，また筱珊（しようさん），芸風と号した。江蘇省江陰の人。光緒2年(1876)の進士で，南菁，濼源，鍾山等の書院で講席を主宰し，江南図書館，京師図書館を創設した。金石や目録の学に長じ，黄丕烈（こうひれつ）の題跋を集めて刊行したりしたが，みずから善本を蔵することでも知られた。《芸風堂蔵書記》などの著書があるほか，《雲自在盦叢書（うんじざいあんそうしよ）》《対雨楼叢書》等の叢書として古今の著書を刊行した。

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