Sở Cuồng or Lê Dư (born 1884, xã Nông Sơn, Điện Bàn District - died 31 August 1967) was a

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scholar. He was born in Quảng Nam. Although his exact birth date was not known, he lived in the same period with

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, the leader of the Nhân Văn affair. He had obtained part of his study in

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, following

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. It seems that around 1900 he with two his friends headed to

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to learn French, later he joined Đông Kinh school and the movement of

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. In 1925 after having travelled to Japan and

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he returned to Vietnam and worked in the Political Department of

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governor, later he worked in the Far-east School of antique in Hanoi. His work consisted of editing books and cooperation with mass media of that time. He married the sister of Phan Khôi.Thuy Khuê - The relationship between Phan Khoi - So Cuong Le Du - Hoang Van Chi - Hopluu.net
He had four daughters; the youngest one drowned at an early age, the other three married prominent scholars of Vietnam. Lê Hằng Phương, a poet herself, married

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Lê Hằng Phấn Lê Hằng Phấn (died c.1990 in Bowie, Maryland) was the second daughter of a Vietnamese scholar Sở Cuồng Lê Dư. She was one among the four sisters: Lê Hằng Phương - Lê Hằng Phấn - Lê Hằng Huân - Lê Hằng Trang. The four ...

married

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. Lê Hằng Huân married general

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. Sở Cuồng Lê Dư initiated the collection of " Quốc Học Tùng Thư" or "Books about Vietnamese Heritage".

Published works

* ''Dấu tích Thăng Long''

References

Vietnamese scholars 1967 deaths Year of birth missing People from Quảng Nam province {{Vietnam-academic-bio-stub