Alexandre de Rhodes
1593
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1660
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Papal States
native language: Occitan
occupation: lexicographer, linguist, translator, missionary
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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