Huỳnh Tịnh Của

Paulus Huỳnh Tịnh Của or Paulus Huình Tịnh Của (1834-1907) was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar who studied and translated European works, classical Chinese works and Nôm works into Quốc Ngữ - modern romanized Vietnamese.

[1][2][3] Like Trương Vĩnh Ký, Của was a Confucian scholar who converted to Catholicism.

He worked for the French colonial government of Cochinchina in the translation of judicial papers.

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Sculpture of Paulus Của