Alexandre de Rhodes

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1591 – 1660

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Who was Alexandre de Rhodes?

Alexandre de Rhodes, S.J. was a French 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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Born
Mar 15, 1591
Avignon
Religion
  • Catholicism
Nationality
  • France
Died
Nov 5, 1660
Isfahan

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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