Phan Huy Chú (1782–1840) was a Vietnamese mandarin administrator, scholar and historian. He was a son of the scholar and official
Phan Huy Ích
Phan Huy Ích (chữ Hán: 潘輝益; 1751–1822) was a Vietnamese poet. Phan Huy Ich served two dynasties, both the Le dynasty then the Tay Son uprising. About the time of the collapse of the Tay Son dynasty he wrote the preface to Ngô Thì N ...
, who had been a noted official in the short-lived Tay Son regime.
Chú was recruited to go on a mission to China in 1825, the 6th year of the reign of
Minh Mệnh. In 1828 he was appointed deputy governor of
Thừa Thiên Province, and then in 1829 governor of
Quảng Nam Province. Thereafter he continued to serve the court as a diplomatic envoy, including on a fact-finding trip in 1833 that took him to Singapore and Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. Upon returning from the trip he submitted a report under the title "Summary Record of a Sea Journey."
He is best known as author of ''Lich Trieu Hien Chuong Loai Chi'' (1819).
[John Kleinen, Philippe Papin, Huy Lê Phan ''Liber amicorum: mélanges offerts au professeur Phan Huy Lê'' 1999 Page 227 "Phan Huy Chu (1782-1840), the third-born son by the writer Phan Huy Ich, was born in Sai Son. He was the author of the famous book Lich Trieu Hien Chuong Loai Chi (1819) and many other books. For the Vietnamese, he was the man of ..."]
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19th-century Vietnamese historians
1782 births
1840 deaths