裕禄是晚清统治集团的重要代表人物,先后出任过安徽巡抚、湖广总督、盛京将军、福州将军、四川总督、直隶总督兼北洋大臣等要职,1900年8月八国联军自天津向北京进犯时,他在杨村自杀身死。关于裕禄的出生年代,史学界有两种说法。一是认为生于1834年(《清代人物传稿》下编第三卷,第61、62页),二是大量辞书如《辞海》、《中国近代史辞典》、《中国近现代人名大辞典》的作者都记为约生于1844年。以上两种说法所依据的史料主要是《清史稿·裕禄传》中“同治十三年,擢(安徽)巡抚,年甫逾三十”的记载。但1834年说法的作者一时疏忽,将时间推算错误,故此说不足为据,第二种说法也欠准 Yu Lu was an important representative of the late Qing Dynasty ruling clique. He served successively as Governor of Anhui, Governor of Hu Guang, General Sheng Jing, General of Fuzhou, Governor of Sichuan, Governor of Zhili and Minister of the Northern Ocean. In August 1900, the Allied Forces of the Eight- Invaded, he committed suicide in Yangcun. About Yu Lu’s birth year, historians have two versions. First, that was born in 1834 (“Biography of the Qing Dynasty,” the third volume, the first 61, 62), the second is a large number of dictionaries such as “Cihai”, “Dictionary of Modern Chinese History”, “ The authors of the Dictionary are remembered as co-born in 1844. The above two statements are based on the historical data mainly in the ”Qing Dynasty version of biography“ in the ”Tongzhi thirteen years, 擢 (Anhui) governor, the year more than thirty" records. However, the author of the 1834 one-hour negligence miscalculated the time, so claiming as insufficient basis, the second argument is not accurate