Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (born 1591)

Alexandre de Rhodes

Jesuit missionary and lexicographer in Vietnam

Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ, also Đắc Lộ, was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary, published in…