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(Redirected from Hoang Xuan Han) Vietnamese historian (1908–1996)
Hoàng Xuân Hãn
Minister of Education and Fine Arts
In office
17 April 1945 – 23 August 1945
MonarchBảo Đại Emperor
Prime MinisterTrần Trọng Kim
Preceded byTrần Thanh Đạt (as Minister of National Education)
Succeeded byVũ Đình Hòe (as Minister of National Education of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam)
Personal details
Born8 March 1908 (1908-03-08)
Yên Hồ, La Sơn, Hà Tĩnh, Annam, French Indochina
Died10 March 1996 (1996-03-11) (aged 88)
Paris, France
Spouse Nguyễn Thị Bính ​(m. 1936)​
EducationPomelo School
Albert Sarraut School
École Polytechnique
École nationale des ponts et chaussées
Sorbonne University
ProfessionProfessor of mathematics, linguist, historian, and educationalist
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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.

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.

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.

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References

  1. 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 ..."
  2. 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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