Alexandre de Rhodes: Quick Facts

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Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot

Jesuit missionary

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

John Crawfurd

British scholar and diplomat

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Minh Mang

emperor of Vietnam

Le Van Duyet

Vietnamese statesman

Pétrus Ky

Vietnamese statesman

Tu Duc

emperor of Vietnam

Theodor Benfey

German scholar

Gudbrandur Vigfússon

Icelandic linguist

H.A. Giles

British scholar

Otto von Böhtlingk

Russian linguist

Henry George Liddell

British lexicographer

James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist

Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre

French administrator and diplomat

Paul Mus

French scholar

Pierre-Joseph-Georges Pigneau de Béhaine

Roman Catholic missionary

Charles Rigault de Genouilly

French admiral

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron

French scholar and linguist