Fan Ye (historian)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Fan.
Fan Ye
Traditional Chinese 范曄
Simplified Chinese 范晔

Fan Ye (398–445), courtesy name Weizong (蔚宗), was a historian and politician of the Liu Song dynasty during the Southern and Northern dynasties period. He was the compiler of the historical text Book of the Later Han. The son of Fan Tai (范泰), Fan Ye was born in present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang, but his ancestral home was in Nanyang, Henan.

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