Hồ Văn Nhựt
| Hồ Văn Nhựt | |
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| Born |
15 July 1905 Tân Qui Đông, Sa Đéc, French Cochinchina |
| Died | 13 March 1986 (aged 80) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Medical doctor |
| Known for | Founder of Southern Red Cross of Vietnam and Opposition leader |
| Spouse(s) | Trương Hồng Hoa (10 November 1921 – 8 March 2002) |
Hồ Văn Nhựt (15 July 1905 – 13 March 1986) was a medical doctor who founded the Southern branch of Red Cross of Vietnam and a South Vietnamese opposition leader during and after the period of resistance against colonialism.
Hồ Văn Nhựt was born on 15 July 1905 in the village of Tân Qui Đông, Sa Đéc province, to a traditional family of scholars and mandarins (nho giáo) in the Southern part of Vietnam, which was then a French colony known as 'French Cochinchina.’
He obtained his father's permission to travel to Saigon to study at the French-founded Collège Chasseloup-Laubat in the section for Vietnamese children or "quartier indigène." Among his school friends was the scholar and historian . Some time later, as a mid-teenager, Dr Nhựt travelled to France to further his studies. The purpose of Dr Nhựt's study in France was to help him acquire the necessary Western knowledge that would allow him to serve his country upon his return to Vietnam.
Dr Nhựt obtained his brevet and baccalauréat in Montpellier, where he also started his medical training which was completed in Paris in 1933. His thesis supervised by Professor Louis-Jacques Tanon (1876–1969), an eminent expert in hygiene and tropical medicine, was dedicated to the study of malaria and approaches to controlling this disease in Saigon.
Dr Nhựt then chose to specialize in gynaecology & obstetrics at the Maternité Baudelocque under Professor (1873–1948), a prominent specialist in this field. He practised medicine in France for some time to gain further experience before returning to Vietnam in 1938 where he founded the first South Vietnamese maternity clinic in Phú Nhuận on the outskirts of Saigon. He later became Director of the national maternity hospital Từ Dũ () in Saigon.
Outside of his professional career, Dr Nhựt participated in the national movement to popularize the press written in modern-day Vietnamese or Quốc ngữ in Cochinchina. With his friend and colleague Dr , he founded the weekly newspaper Văn Lang in Saigon in 1939, which had the support and contributions from South-Vietnamese intellectuals trained in France.
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