Giáo sư Đào Duy Anh, người thầy của những thế hệ sử gia đầu tiên được đào tạo từ nền đại học Việt Nam sau cách mạng 8-1945

Abstract

As one of Professor Đao Duy Anh’s first students, the author has provided some
information about his contributions to th e study of history during his lifetime.
Before the August R e v o lu t io n , Đao Duy Anh was one of the patriotic intellectuals
who acquired Marxism and took part in spreading the age’s progressive thought system
in Vietnam, especially during the time he worked for  Tan Viet. Cach mang Dang {New
Vietnam Revolutionary Party - 1927) and founded Quan hai trung thu (1928 - 1929). His
Chinese -  Vietnamese and  French - Vietnamese dictionaries contributed significantly to
Vietnamese culture and education.
He was one of the first professors at the  University of Reading  of the  Democratic
Republic o f Vietnam, which started its new academic year in November, 1945. During
the  Resistance against the French colonists, he worked in cultural fields, then he
became a professor at  Pre-university and Advanced Pedagogy School in Thanh Hoá
(1952 - 1954). Having returned to Hanoi, he worked as a professor at  Hanoi
Pedagogical University and Hanoi University  (1955 - 1960).
With  Vietnamese History from the O r ig in to the E n d o f the X IX C en tu ry ,  Ancient
Vietnamese History t  The Shaping o f the Vietnamese Nation ...» he laid the foundation for
studying Ancient Vietnamese history and building the  Subject o f Ancient Vietnamese
History at Hanoi University.  He took part in educating many generations of students,
some of whom have become famous scientists in the fields of culture and history.

With significant contributions to Vietnamese culture and historical science, Đao
Duy Anh has been honoured as a great scientist, a profound scholar in many areas,
such as lexicography, linguistics, literature, culture, history ethnography, archaeology
and historical geography, etc. Moreover, he is an excellent example: a patriotic
intellectual who devoted his whole life to the liberation of the Vietnamese nation.