Hoàng Xuân Hãn | |
Office1: | Minister of Education and Fine Arts |
Monarch1: | Bảo Đại Emperor |
Primeminister1: | Trần Trọng Kim |
Term Start1: | 17 April 1945 |
Term End1: | 23 August 1945 |
Predecessor1: | Trần Thanh Đạt (as Minister of National Education) |
Successor1: | Vũ Đình Hòe (as Minister of National Education of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) |
Birth Place: | Yên Hồ, La Sơn, Hà Tĩnh, Annam, French Indochina |
Death Place: | Paris, France |
Profession: | Professor of mathematics, linguist, historian, and educationalist |
Education: | Pomelo SchoolAlbert Sarraut SchoolÉcole PolytechniqueÉcole nationale des ponts et chausséesSorbonne University |
Signature: | Giáo dục Mỹ thuật (教育美術) seal.png |
Hoàng Xuân Hãn (Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist. He was Minister of Education in the short-lived 1945 cabinet of historian Trần Trọng Kim and drafted and issued the first Vietnamese education program.[1]
Like many of the academics in the five-month Trần Trọng Kim government, afterwards Hãn returned to academic studies. He was the first Vietnamese historian to fully study the history of Nôm texts by the 17th Century Jesuits such as Girolamo Maiorica.[2]