Hoàng Xuân Hãn (Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist. He was Minister of Education in the short-lived 1945 cabinet of historian Trần Trọng Kim and drafted and issued the first Vietnamese education program.[1]
Hoàng Xuân Hãn | |
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| Minister of Education and Fine Arts | |
| In office 17 April 1945 – 23 August 1945 | |
| Monarch | Bảo Đại Emperor |
| Prime Minister | Trần Trọng Kim |
| Preceded by | Trần Thanh Đạt (as Minister of National Education) |
| Succeeded by | Vũ Đình Hòe (as Minister of National Education of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 March 1908 Yên Hồ, La Sơn, Hà Tĩnh, Annam, French Indochina |
| Died | 10 March 1996 (aged 88) Paris, France |
| Spouse |
Nguyễn Thị Bính (m. 1936) |
| Education | Pomelo School Albert Sarraut School École Polytechnique École nationale des ponts et chaussées Sorbonne University |
| Profession | Professor of mathematics, linguist, historian, and educationalist |
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Like many of the academics in the five-month Trần Trọng Kim government, afterwards Hãn returned to academic studies. He was the first Vietnamese historian to fully study the history of Nôm texts by the 17th Century Jesuits such as Girolamo Maiorica.[2]
Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a Francophile anticolonialist, resistance hero against the French colonialists in Vietnam's First Indochina War, medical doctor, and politician was a close friend of Hoàng Xuân Hãn.
See also
edit- Hoàng Xuân Sính, Vietnamese mathematician.
References
edit- ^ Hoang Van Dao Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang 2008 Page 232 "After meeting with Khâm Sai Phan, Kế Toại and Doctor Nguyễn Xuân Chữ, Hoàng Xuân Hãn telegraphed Huế and proposed that the Prime Minister issue a decree to form a political institution, the North Vietnam Political Directors Committee ..."
- ^ Wynn Wilcox -Vietnam and the West: New Approaches 2010 - Page 26 "That Vietnamese scholar was Hoàng Xuân Hãn, to whom a colleague had introduced Schurhammer's article shortly after its publication. At that time, Xuân Hãn was pursuing research in Europe and, while browsing old Vietnamese documents ..."
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