Record ID:
56964090 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 85049058
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1591-03-15
  • Avignon (France)
Death:
  • 1660-11-05
  • Iṣfahān (Iran)
Associated with:
  • Vietnam
Occupations:
  • Missionaries Linguists Lexicographers Translators
Used for:
  • De Rhodes, Alexandre, 1591-1660
Notes:
  • His Sommaire des diuers voyages et missions apostoliques ... 1653 t.p. (R.P. Alexandre de Rhodes, de la Compagnie de Iesus)
  • LC manual authority cd. (hdg.: Rhodes, Alexandre de, 1591-1660)
  • Wikipedia 21 November 2015 (Alexandre de Rhodes, S.J. (15 March 1591-5 November 1660) was a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He was born in Avignon, and entered the Jesuit noviciate in Rome on 24 April 1614, and arrived in Hanoi in 1620. His Portuguese-Latin-Vietnamese dictionary was used in the creation of the Vietnamese alphabet in Latin script. In 1649 he returned to Rome. He died in Isfahan, Persia.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Rhodes
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC Uk DLC VJTL