About Đào Duy Anh
Lived 1904 – 1988 (aged 83). Đào Duy Anh was a Vietnamese lexicographer, historian, writer, geographer, linguist and translator.
Đào Duy Anh (25 April 1904 – 1 April 1988) was a Vietnamese historian and lexicographer. He was born in Thanh Oai, Hà Tây, now, Hanoi. He was one of the writers associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair. He was the general editor of what was long regarded as the most scholarly dictionary of Vietnamese, the Pháp-Việt Từ điển. Towards the end of his life he wrote on the earliest archeological evidence for chữ Nôm.
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Who was Đào Duy Anh?
lexicographer (1904–1988)
When was Đào Duy Anh born?
Đào Duy Anh was born on 25 April 1904 in Thanh Hóa.
When did Đào Duy Anh die?
Đào Duy Anh died on 1 April 1988 in Hanoi.
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Đào Duy Anh was a lexicographer, historian, writer, geographer, linguist and translator.
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Đào Duy Anh was Vietnamese.
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