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Alexandre de Rhodes
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Alexandre de Rhodes was a male missionary, lexicographer, linguist, and translator born in Avignon in 1591. A member of the Society of Jesus and a practitioner of Catholicism, he held citizenship in the Papal States and Comtat Venaissin. His native language was Occitan, and he also spoke French, Latin, and Italian. He is described in sources such as the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia and The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Rhodes authored seventeen works, including the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, also known as Dictionarium Annamiticum, Lusitanum et Latinum ope Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide in lucem editum. Other notable publications include Lịch sử vương quốc Đàng Ngoài, Phép giʾang tám ngày, Cathechismus pro iis qui volunt suscipere baptismum in octo dies divisus, and Divers voyages et missions dv pere Alexandre de Rhodes en la Chine, & autres royaumes de l'Orient. He died on November 5, 1660, in Isfahan, where he was also buried.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1591
- Died
- 1660
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Dictionarium Annamiticum, Lusitanum et Latinum ope Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide in lucem editum
- Lịch sử vương quốc Đàng Ngoài
- Phép giʾang tám ngày
- Histoire dv royavme de Tvnqvin, et des grands progrez qve la predication de l'Evangile y a faits en la conuersion des infidelles, depuis l'année 1627. iusques à l'année 1646
- Cathechismus pro iis qui volunt suscipere baptismum in octo dies divisus
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Key facts
- Born
- 15 March 1593, Avignon , Papal States
- Died
- 5 November 1660 (aged 67), Isfahan , Persia
- Denomination
- Roman Catholicism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexandre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Comtat Venaissin
- Place of birth
- Avignon
- Place of death
- Isfahan
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Vietnamese
- Native language
- Occitan
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Notable work
- Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum
- Image
- Derhodes.jpg
- Religious order
- Society of Jesus
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- date of birth
- 1593-03-15
- date of death
- 1660-11-05
- name in native language
- Alexandre de Rhodes
- Commons category
- Alexandre de Rhodes
- Commons Creator page
- Alexandre de Rhodes
- place of burial
- Isfahan
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ ( French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ də ʁɔd]; 15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660), also Đắc Lộ, 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.
Biography
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