Alexandre De Rhodes
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 364 years ago |
Date of birth | March 15,1591 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Avignon |
France | |
Date of died | November 5,1660 |
Died | Isfahan |
Iran | |
Nationality | Papal |
Books | Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum |
Divers voyages et missions du père Alexandre de Rhodes | |
Parents | Bernardin II de Rhodes |
Francoise de Rafaelis | |
Founded | Paris Foreign Missions Society |
Place of burial | Armenian Cemetry, Isfahan, Iran |
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ID | 977356 |
Alexandre De Rhodes Life story
Alexandre de Rhodes 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.