Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ, 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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Map of "Annam" drafted by Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) showing "Cocincina" (left) and "Tunkin" (right).
Latin-Vietnamese catechism, written by Alexandre de Rhodes.
A page from Alexandre de Rhodes' 1651 dictionary, Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum.
Two postage stamps of French Indochina with denominations of 15 and 30 centimes, issued in 1943 in recognition of Alexandre de Rhodes' contribution to the development of the latin-based Vietnamese script.
A series of four postage stamps of the Republic of Vietnam, issued in 1961 for the 300th anniversary of the death of Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660)Academics born in the 1590s 6
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1591 to 1660 · aged 69
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