Đào Duy Anh (25 April 1904 – 1 April 1988) was a Vietnamese

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries. * The ...

. He was born in Thanh Oai,

Hà Tây Hà is a Vietnamese given name, male or female, meaning "river". Hà is a Vietnamese 'surname' (during French colonialism). The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean. Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is ...

, now,

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. He was one of the writers associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair. He was the general editor of what was long regarded as the most scholarly dictionary of Vietnamese, the ''Pháp-Việt Từ điển''. Towards the end of his life he wrote on the earliest archeological evidence for

chữ Nôm Chữ Nôm (, ) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters ...

.Đào Duy Anh: Chứng tích xưa nhất về chữ Nôm: một tấm bia đời Lý Cao Tông, Nghiên cứu lịch sử số 134, 1973.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dao, Duy Anh 20th-century Vietnamese historians Lexicographers 1904 births 1988 deaths People from Thanh Hóa province Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair 20th-century linguists 20th-century lexicographers