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Alexandre de Rhodes

French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer
Years: 1591 - 1660

Alexandre de Rhodes, S.J. (March 15, 1591 – November 5, 1660) is a French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who has a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam.

He writes the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in Rome, in 1651