Ho Chi Minh (English spelling)

Japanese: ホー･チ･ミン（英語表記）Ho Chi Minh

1890‐1969
Nguyen Sinh Cung was a revolutionary who became the founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party and the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. His childhood name was Nguyen Sinh Cung (he changed his name to Nguyen Tat Thanh after entering school) and he was born into a poor family of Confucian scholars in Kim Lien Village, Nam Dang District, Nghe An Province, central Vietnam. He was influenced by the nationalist movement from an early age and left Vietnam in 1911 as an apprentice cook on a French ship, hoping to find a way to save his native country, Vietnam, which was under French colonial rule, within the society of the suzerain.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1890‐1969
ベトナム共産党の創立者で，ベトナム民主共和国初代国家主席(大統領)になった革命家。幼名はグエン･シン･クンNguyen Sinh Cung(就学後グエン･タット･タインNguyen Tat Thanh)で，ベトナム中部ゲアン省ナムダン県キムリエン村の，貧しい儒学者の家庭に生まれた。幼少の時から民族主義運動の影響を受けて育ち，フランス植民地支配下の祖国ベトナムの救国の道を宗主国の社会に見いだすべく，1911年フランス船の見習コックとなり出国した。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

<<: Votyak (English spelling)

>>: Ho Chi Minh City (English)