一何炳棣教授的治学与为人何炳棣教授于2012年6月7日清晨七点十一分在睡梦中安然去世,享寿九十五岁,史学界失去一位跨世纪的大师。何炳棣先生原来念的是英国史~①,后来转治中国史,他的研究领域广,包括扬州盐商、明清至民国的人口、明清会馆、明清科举与社会流动、美洲新大陆作物输入中国、北魏洛阳城、明代土地数据、 Professor He Bingdi’s scholarship and Professor He Bingdi’s death in his sleep at 7.11am on June 7, 2012, with his life of 95 and loss of a transatlantic master in history. He Bingdi originally read the history of the United Kingdom ~ ①, and later transferred to Chinese history, his research areas, including Yangzhou salt merchants, the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China population, Ming and Qing Dynasties Hall, imperial civil examinations and social mobility in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the New World crop input China, the Northern Wei Dynasty Luoyang City, Ming land data,