A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fan Ning
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541 Fan Ning 范寕 (T. 武子). A.D. 339-441. A native of 順陽 Shun-yang in Honan. In youth a diligent student, he did not take office until over thirty years of age, when he became a Magistrate in Chehkiang. Six years later he held high office at the capital; but he attacked the powerful Minister 司馬温 Ssŭ-ma Wên, and was sent away to be Governor of Yü-chang in Kiangsi, shortly after which he retired into private life. As an author he is chiefly known by his 春秋穀梁傳集解, a work on Ku Liang's commentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals. In 647 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple; in 1530 it was removed; and in 1724 replaced.