Pétrus Ky

Pétrus Ky

▪ Vietnamese statesman
also called  Truong Vinh Ky, or Jean-baptiste Pétrus  
born Dec. 6, 1837, Vinh Long province, Vietnam
died Sept. 1, 1898

      Vietnamese scholar whose literary works served as a bridge between his civilization and that of the West. He helped popularize the romanized script of the Vietnamese language, Quoc-ngu.

      Pétrus Ky was born into a Roman Catholic family, and in 1848 he attended a mission college in Cambodia; three years later he studied at the Catholic college in Penang (now Pinang, Malaysia), established by French missionaries, and decided to enter the priesthood. Having studied French, Latin, and Greek, Pétrus Ky was designated by the missionaries as their most competent interpreter, and so his future was redirected. In 1863 he went with the statesman Phan Thanh Gian as an interpreter on a diplomatic mission to France. Pétrus Ky saw the great cultural differences between the Vietnamese and the French, and he stayed in Europe until 1865, visiting England, Spain, Italy, and Egypt, while compiling a Vietnamese–French dictionary.

      In 1867–74 Pétrus Ky taught Oriental languages in Saigon and wrote prolifically in the French-sponsored Vietnamese language newspaper Gia-Dinh Bao. In 1876 he visited northern Vietnam (Tonkin in French usage) and prepared a confidential report on political conditions there, urging a French advance into this still uncolonized region. In 1886 Gov. Gen. Paul Bert designated Pétrus Ky as the teacher of French to the emperor Dong Kanh at the court of Hue.

      Pétrus Ky assumed responsibility for translating not only the French language but also Western attitudes and philosophies for the Vietnamese. He was a prolific writer on many diverse subjects; among his publications are Thanh suy bi tho'i phu (1883; “Whims of Destiny”), Phong hoa dieu hanh (1885; “Morals and Deeds”), Grammaire de la langue annamite (1867; “Grammar of the Vietnamese Language”), Petit cours de géographie de la Basse-Cochinchine (1875; “Handbook of the Geography of Lower Cochinchina”), Cours d'histoire annamite (1875–77; “Course of Vietnamese History”), and Histoire d'Annam (“History of Vietnam”), the first significant history of Vietnam written in a European language and following European historiographic models.

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