高宗元是清代中叶诗人,也是一位戏曲家。但关于他的生平资料特别是生卒年,过去学术界都不甚了了。已故著名旅美戏曲研究专家邓长风先生所著《明清戏曲家考略三编》、庄一拂先生《古典戏曲存目汇考》、蔡毅先生《中国古典戏曲序跋汇编》以及李灵年、杨忠两位先生主编《清人别集总目》、柯愈春先生所著《清人诗文集总目提要》,都著录有高宗元,而于作者的生平不得其详。笔者顷读丁丙辑《武林坊巷志》,在“东西坊二”所属“双陈巷”条,和“卫所下”所属“普济堂”条,同时见到了沈赤然为高宗元而撰的《候选州 Gao Zongyuan was a middle-aged poet in the Qing Dynasty and a traditional operaist. However, in the past academics, the materials about his life, especially the birth and death years, were scarce. Mr. Deng Changfeng, the famous expert on drama studies in the late United States, edited three series of “A Study of Ming and Qing Drama Operators” by Mr. Zhuang Yifu, “Collection of Classical Operas”, Mr. Cai Yi’s “Collection of Prefaces and Postscripts of Chinese Classical Operas,” and Li Lingnian and Yang Zhong two gentlemen editor of “Qing dynasties do not set the head”, Mr. Ke Yuchun book “Qing Dynasty poetry collection headlines”, are recorded Gaozong Yuan, and the author’s life is not detailed. The author is reading Ding C, “Wulin Square Lane Chi”, in the “East Square two” belongs to “double Chen Lane”, and “Wei Office” “belongs to” Puji Hall “, at the same time Seen Shen Chi Ran for the Gao Zongyuan and ”candidate state