Collector profile / 收藏家档案
Life dates / 生卒
1869—1936
Native place / 籍贯
浙江余杭
Courtesy names & aliases / 字号
原名学乘，后名炳麟；字枚叔；号太炎
Collection studio / 藏室
Gaolan Shi 膏兰室
Active centers / 活动地
杭州、上海、苏州、东京、北京
Representative holdings / 代表收藏
A large collection of epigraphic rubbings, together with Zhang’s manuscripts, correspondence, calligraphy, books, and scholarly papers.
Research significance / 研究意义
A top-ten documentary figure in this edition. His collected rubbings and surviving papers preserve primary evidence for modern philology, intellectual history, revolutionary history, and scholarly networks.
Public legacy / 公共影响
Hangzhou memorial-institution sources state that Zhang collected substantial epigraphic rubbings and left manuscripts, letters, calligraphy, and books. Successive family donations placed this material in the Zhang Taiyan Memorial Hall and his former residence in Yuhang.