Ngô Thì Sĩ
Born | 1726 Thanh Oai, Đại Việt |
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Died | 1780 Lạng Sơn, Đại Việt |
Occupation | Royal historian |
Language | Vietnamese, Hán tự |
Period | Revival Lê dynasty |
Genre | Historiography |
Notable works | , , |
Ngô Thì Sĩ (吳時仕, 1726 – 1780) was an 18th-century Vietnamese scholar, historian and government official.
He passed court examination and awarded hoàng giáp in 1766, then served as Hiệu lý Viện Hàn to proofread the national history.
Sĩ is known for being the principal compiler of the , and . He was the first man who regarded Triệu dynasty as a separate regime of China instead of a legitimate dynasty of Vietnam.[1]
Sĩ had four sons: Ngô Thì Nhậm, , , , and a son-in-law Phan Huy Ích. All of them were scholars.
References[]
- ^ Đào Duy Anh (1959). Cổ sử Việt Nam. Nhà xuất bản Khoa học. pp. 166–168.
Categories:
- 1726 births
- 1780 deaths
- Vietnamese Confucianists
- Vietnamese male writers
- 18th-century Vietnamese poets
- Lê dynasty poets
- Lê dynasty writers