Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Alexandre de Rhodes
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Related Questions
Read Next
Happy, smiling, flying pig
7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From
The Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota. The Italian Renaissance church, built in 1915, is styled after St. Peter's in Rome.
To All Nations: 8 Fascinating Jesuit Missionaries
Chinese pictograph, calligraphy tablet of Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in Ancient Song Dynasty. The background of Chinese cultural elements.
The World’s 5 Most Commonly Used Writing Systems
Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier
8 Famous Animals
Portion of the Aleppo Codex, a manuscript of the Hebrew Bible written in the Hebrew language in the 10th century CE; in the Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Why Do Languages Die?
Discover
Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd
Causes of the Great Depression
Marriage. A couple getting married during a church wedding ceremony. (religion, ceremony, bride, groom)
The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church
Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
6 Important Mughal Emperors
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"
How Deadly Is Quicksand?
Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.
6 Wars of Independence

Alexandre de Rhodes: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Alexandre-de-Rhodes
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born March 15, 1591 • Avignon • France
Died March 5, 1660 (aged 68) • Eṣfahān • Iran
Subjects Of Study Quoc-ngu
Amiot, Jean-Joseph-Marie
Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot
Jesuit missionary
Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
John Crawfurd
British scholar and diplomat
Adoniram Judson, detail from an engraving by Alfred Jones after a painting by Chester Harding, 1846
Adoniram Judson
American missionary
Minh Mang
emperor of Vietnam
Le Van Duyet
Vietnamese statesman
Pétrus Ky
Vietnamese statesman
Tu Duc
emperor of Vietnam
Theodor Benfey
German scholar
Gudbrandur Vigfússon
Icelandic linguist
H.A. Giles
British scholar
Otto von Böhtlingk
Russian linguist
Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Henry George Liddell
British lexicographer
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre
French administrator and diplomat
Paul Mus
French scholar
Pierre-Joseph-Georges Pigneau de Béhaine
Roman Catholic missionary
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
French admiral
Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange
French scholar
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron
French scholar and linguist