Alexandre de Rhodes
Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ (15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660), 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.
The Reverend Alexandre de Rhodes SJ | |
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| Born | 15 March 1593 Avignon, Papal States |
| Died | 5 November 1660 (aged 67) Isfahan, Persia |
| Denomination | Roman Catholicism |
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