Phạm Huy Thông (1916–1988) was a Vietnamese scholar, educator, archaeologist, poet and social scientist. A Bachelor of Law graduate of the University of Indochina, in 1937 he went to study in Paris, France. In 1949 he joined the

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, and in 1953 joined the Labour Party. In 1952 he was expelled from France and was put on probation in

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. He later escaped from prison and became Rector of Hanoi University of Education (1956–1966), Director of the Institute of Archaeology (1967–1988), professor and Vice-Chairman of the Social Sciences Committee, and was a member of National Assemblies II and III. In 1987, he was elected a foreign academic of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic.

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