Gu (1904165438+1October10 ~1August 2, 9981), a famous ancient book publisher, cataloger and calligrapher, was the former director of Shanghai Library. Long-term commitment to the study of classical philology, edition science and bibliography.

Chinese name: Gu.

Date of birth: 1904. 1 1

Date of death: 1998.8

Occupation: Bibliographer

Masterpiece: Bibliography of Si Dangzhai

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Gu Longting, dive. Suzhou people. He used to be the director of Chinese interview in yenching university Library. 1939 co-founded Shanghai He Zhong Library and served as its director-general. Later, he served as a professor at Jinan University and Guanghua University. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as the director of Shanghai Historical Literature Library, the director of Shanghai Library, the adjunct professor of East China Normal University, the editor-in-chief of Rare Books of Chinese Ancient Books, and the member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Culture. He is the author of Textual Research, Bibliography of Si Dangzhai and Selected Ancient Calligraphy.

Life memorabilia

Gu, 193 1, graduated from university with a bachelor of arts degree. 1933 graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing yenching university Research Institute with a master's degree in literature. After that, he devoted himself to the cause of library, and successively served as the director of the acquisition department of yenching university Library, the director-general and curator of Shanghai Private Joint Publishing House Library.

After liberation, he successively served as a member of the Preparatory Committee of Shanghai Library, director of Shanghai Historical Literature Library, director of Shanghai Library, honorary director of Shanghai Library, editor-in-chief of Ci Hai, member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Culture, consultant of the State Council Ancient Books Publishing Planning Group, first, second and third vice presidents of library society of china, adjunct professor of East China Normal University and honorary director of China Calligraphers Association.

After the "July 7th Incident", I couldn't bear to see the cultural relics in the south of the Yangtze River plundered by the Japanese invaders, so I resolutely resigned and returned to Shanghai, and set up a private joint publishing house library with cultural celebrities such as Zhang Yuanji and Ye Jingkui to preserve the endangered literature and classics. After liberation, he donated nearly 300,000 ancient books and precious modern Chinese and foreign documents collected by He Zhong Library in the past ten years to the country, which became an important part of the collection of Shanghai Library.

Introduction of works

Comrade Gu has been devoted to the rescue and collection of genealogy, Zhu Juan, diaries, notes, personal files, ancient manuscripts, school-based manuscripts and revolutionary documents for a long time. For example, he collected nearly 100 kinds of early revolutionary books and periodicals, such as the Manifesto of the Producer Party translated by Chen Wangdao and the Series of Peasant Movement by Mao Zedong, from miscellaneous books discarded by others.

In the mid-1950s, he rescued tens of thousands of genealogical documents from the waste paper piles in the paper mill. As early as the 1940s. He compiled one or two episodes of UPI library series. After taking charge of the Shanghai Library, he put forward a book publishing plan that was not isolated. In 1950s and 1960s, he presided over the compilation and publication of more than 30 kinds of precious arc books in Song Dynasty, such as Tang Jian and Yu Yun Yang Qiu, and made them public.

His Bibliography of Zhang Si Dangzhai and the first edition of Catalogue of Ming Publications (co-edited with Pan) became famous in 1930s. China Comprehensive Records Series edited by him is rich in content, detailed in classification and convenient to retrieve. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Bibliography of Rare Books of Chinese Ancient Books and the editor-in-chief of the Continuation of Sikuquanshu.

His Chronicle of Mr. Wu Zhai, Ancient Taowenzhi and Shangshu, co-edited with Gu Jiegang, all have high academic value and are well-known at home and abroad. He is also a professor at East China Normal University.

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