Trần Trọng Kim
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| Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam | |
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In office 17 April 1945 – 23 August 1945 |
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| Monarch | Bảo Đại |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Hồ Chí Minh (as prime minister of DRV) |
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| Born | 1883 Hà Tĩnh, Annam, Đại Nam |
| Died | 2 December 1953 (aged 70) Đà Lạt, Vietnam |
| Spouse(s) | Bùi Thị Tuất |
| Profession | scholar, historian, educator |
Trần Trọng Kim (1883 – December 2, 1953) was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a puppet state created by Imperial Japan in 1945. This came after Japan had seized direct control of Vietnam from the Vichy French colonial forces during the Second World War.
Kim was born in Dan Pho,Hà Tĩnh Province in northern central Vietnam in 1883. At the time, French Indochina had just been formed after the colonization of Vietnam, and Hà Tĩnh was part of the central region, which had been become a French protectorate under the name of Annam. In the immediate decade afterwards, the province was the scene of a guerrilla movement led by Phan Đình Phùng that attempted to expel the French authorities. This movement was particularly popular in the Nghệ An-Hà Tĩnh region, which had boasted a long line of nationalist icons.
Nevertheless, the movement was crushed; and when Kim grew up, he initially studied in Hanoi at schools reserved for the ruling elite. He then worked in the public service of the French administration. Kim's early career was as an interpreter, serving in Ninh Bình in northern Vietnam, which was known as the protectorate of Tonkin. In 1905, Kim was sent to France as an employee of a private company. In 1908, he won a scholarship from the École Coloniale (Colonial School) to begin his training as a teacher at the École Normale of Melun (Seine-et-Marne). Kim returned to Vietnam in September 1911, commenced his career as a teacher in Annam, and slowly rose in the educational hierarchy. By 1942, he had risen to become an inspector of elementary public instruction in Tonkin. He wrote many works on pedagogy and also started a review on the topic. Kim was also a freemason.
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