Lê Thành Khôi
Lê Thành Khôi (* 1923 in Hanoi , Tonkin , French Indochina ) is a Vietnamese - French educational and economist as well as a retired author, UNESCO advisor and university professor. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Education and Education and Development at the University of Paris V “Descartes” . He is also known as the author of authoritative works on Vietnamese history and literature .
life and career
He comes from a traditional Confucian - Buddhist family of scholars from Hanoi. His father was Lê Thành Y (1893–1973), professor at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi and at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
Lê Thành Khôi completed his Baccalauréat degree with a philological profile (French, Latin, Greek) at the Lycée Albert Sarraut and then began studying law . His studies were interrupted in 1945 by the chaos of war and the August Revolution that followed . In 1947 - after the outbreak of the Indochina War - he left Vietnam and enrolled in the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) . In 1949 he obtained a doctorate in economics with a thesis on Japan. At the same time he attended the École des Langues Orientales , where he graduated in Vietnamese and Chinese. In 1950 he attended the Hague Academy for International Law, where he completed his studies with a diploma.
In the following years he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the law and economics faculty of the University of Paris, the Institut de science économique appliquée (ISEA), the universities of Caen and Nanterre , the Institut d'étude du développement économique et social (IEDES ) and the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).
From 1963 Lê Thành Khôi also worked as a consultant for economic and cultural development for various international organizations - primarily UNESCO , next to the office of the International Labor Organization in Geneva, the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (forerunner of the Francophonie ), the United Nations University in Tokyo and the United Nations Development Program .
In 1968 he obtained a second doctorate, this time in the field of culture and human sciences ( doctorat en lettres et sciences humaines ). In his doctoral thesis he dealt with educational economics and educational planning . In 1971 - after the Paris University was split up - he became a junior professor ( professeur associé ) at the newly created University of Paris Descartes (Paris V). He later received a full professorship and a chair for comparative education and training and development ( éducation comparée et éducation et développement ).
In 1992 he retired and became emeritus.
He is married to Thẩm Thị Hồng Anh , a daughter of Thẩm Hoàng Tín (Mayor of Hanoi 1950-52). The jazz guitarist Nguyên Lê is the son of the two.
Research priorities and works
Lê Thành Khôi is considered to be one of the founders of comparative educational research and the scientific investigation of international educational cooperation . He researches the relationship between educational policy and economic and social development, with a focus on the situation in developing countries. His (second) doctoral thesis "L'Industrie de l'enseignement" , in which he presented and analyzed educational institutions as an industry, made him a pioneer in educational economics . Because of this specialist knowledge, he became a sought-after expert in promoting education; he has worked as a visiting professor or consultant in more than forty countries.
He is best known, however, for his overview of Vietnamese history and literature, beginning with Le Viêt-Nam, Histoire et Civilization, which was published in 1955 . This work was published in a German translation by Otto Karow in 1969 ( 3000 Years of Vietnam: Fate and Culture of a Country ) and is still the most comprehensive German-language treatise on the history of Vietnam. Although Lê Thành Khôi only acquired his knowledge of history and literature at home and through self-study , his books are considered standard works in Vietnam Studies . He wrote all of his publications in French, it was not until 2014 that a Vietnamese translation of his major works appeared in Vietnam.
It was in 2003 with the Grand Prix de la Francophonie (Médaille de vermeil) of française Académie and the 2012 Phan Chau Trinh-Culture Prize awarded.
Lê Thành Khôi has written over forty books during his career and published numerous other articles in specialist journals.
Works (selection):
- Le Viêt-Nam, Histoire et civilization, 1955
( 3000 years of Vietnam: fate and culture of a country . Edited and supplemented by Otto Karow, translated from French by Wolfgang Helbich, Uta Schmalzriedt and Hannes Schoeller, 1969) - L'Économie de l'Asie du sud-est, 1966
- L'Industrie de l'enseignement, 1967
- Histoire de l'Asie du Sud-Est, 1967
- L'Enseignement en Afrique tropicale, 1971
- Jeunesse exploitée, jeunesse perdue, 1978
- L'Éducation comparée, 1981
- Histoire du Viêt Nam des origines à 1858, 1982
- L'Éducation: Cultures et société, 1991
- Marx, Engels et l'éducation, 1991
- Culture, créativité et développement, 1992
- Aigrettes sur la rizière: Chants et poèmes classiques du Viêt-nam, 1995
- Education et civilizations I: Société d'hier, 1995
- Éducation et civilizations II: Genèse du monde contemporain, 2001
- Quelques pas au sud des nuages, 2005
- Un désir de beauté, 2006
- Voyage dans les cultures du Viêt Nam, 2006
- Histoire et anthologie de la littérature viêtnamienne des origines à nos jours, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e LÊ THÀNH KHÔI, Eléments biographiques, 2002 (accessed February 2019)
- ↑ Trinh Van Thao: L'école française en Indochine , KARTHALA, Paris 1995, p. 260
- ^ A b Jacques Lamontagne, Université de Montréal: Le, Thành Khoî: Éducation et civilizations: sociétés d'hier (1995). Revue des sciences del'éducation, 23 (2), pp. 416-417 , 1997
- ↑ To ninh thế giới: Ngôi nhà, người cha và Hà Nội ... , June 24, 2017
- ↑ Ben Kiernan : Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present , Oxford University Press, 2017, Preface
- ↑ Vietnamnet.vn: Tranh luận quanh sách sử của GS Lê Thành Khôi , October 10, 2014
- ^ Académie française: Lê THAN KHOI
- ^ Mémoires d'Indochine: Remise du prix Phan Châu Trinh 2012 , March 29, 2013
- ↑ BBC Vietnamese: Những nhận xét về tác giả Lê Thành Khôi , July 27, 2005
- ↑ Les Éditions de Minuit: Lê Thành Khôi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lê Thành Khôi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Thanh Khoi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese-French educational scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanoi |