Hoàng Xuân Hãn ( Đức Thọ, 1908 –

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, 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

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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

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.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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1908 births 1996 deaths People educated at Lycee Albert Sarraut 20th-century Vietnamese mathematicians People from Hà Tĩnh province French-language literature of Vietnam {{Vietnam-bio-stub

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