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Alexandre de Rhodes
1660Nov, 5

Alexandre de Rhodes

Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (b. 1591)
Alexandre de Rhodes (15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660) was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in Rome, in 1651.

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