Tống Duy Tân (宋維新, 1838 - 1892),

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Cơ Mệnh, was a

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revolutionary who led insurgent armies in Thanh Hóa Province of northern Vietnam as part of the Cần Vương movement that sought to install the boy Emperor

Hàm Nghi Emperor Hàm Nghi (, vi-hantu, lit. "entirely right", ar, هام نغي; 3 August 1872 – 4 January 1943), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch, also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. He reign ...

as the leader of an independent Vietnam. He was captured in 1892 by the French colonial forces and executed.

Early years

Tống Duy Tân was born in 1838, under the reign of King Minh Mạng, in Đông Biện village, Bồng Thượng canton (now is Bồng Trung village, Vĩnh Tân commune) of Vĩnh Lộc district, Thanh Hóa province. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in exam 1870, and gained a doctorate title in exam 1875, then became an official in Ministry of Justice under the reign of King

Tự Đức Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, 嗣德, lit. "inheritance of virtues", 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm , also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam; he ruled ...

. In 1876, he was assigned as reviewer of Thi Hương exam school in Nam Định, then promoted to (Prefect) of Vĩnh Tường fu, Sơn Tây province (now are Vĩnh Tường and 4 other districts of Vĩnh Phúc province, and 2 districts of Phú Thọ province). After two years served as a prefect, the Sơn Tây mandarins proposed to the court to promote him to the position of ''Án sát'' (Surveillance Commissioner), but the situation was troubled at that time, after the 2nd French invasion, Huế court was divided into war faction and peace faction ... Tống refused to work as a mandarin, asked to go back to his hometown to open a school. Later, Regent

Tôn Thất Thuyết Tôn Thất Thuyết ( 尊室説; 12 May 1839 in Huế – 1913 in Longzhou) was the leading mandarin of Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty. Thuyết later led the Cần Vương movement which aimed to restore Vietnamese i ...

- the top leader of the war faction knew that Tống was a patriot who had a good reputation, so he appointed Tống to ''Đốc học'' (Education Commissioner), then ''Chánh sứ Sơn phòng'' (Chief of

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force) of Thanh Hóa province, to prepare the French resistance.

Legacy and memory

A high school in Vĩnh Lộc district has been named after Tống Duy Tân since 1978. Temples and tomb of Tống Duy Tân in his hometown of Vĩnh Lộc and Thanh Hóa city have both been ranked as a national historical and cultural relic.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tong, Duy Tan 1838 births 1892 deaths People from Thanh Hóa province Vietnamese nationalists Vietnamese revolutionaries