A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/K'ung Kuang-sên

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1758361A Chinese Biographical Dictionary — K'ung Kuang-sênHerbert A. Giles

1047 K'ung Kuang-sên 孔廣森 (T. 眾仲 and 撝約. H. 顨軒). A.D. 1751-1786. A native of 曲阜 Ch'ü-fu in Shantung, and a descendant of Confucius in the sixty-eighth generation. He graduated in 1771, but soon retired from public life. Author of clever commentaries on the Five Classics, and of works on the seal and li styles of writing.