Alexandre de Rhodes
Jesuit missionary from Avignon and Rome (1593-1660)
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- 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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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.
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