Le Quy Don

Author

Le Quy Don

Vietnamese writer (1726–1784)

Their life

Lê Quý Đôn was born on 2 August 1726, not 1725 as the request states. He was born Lê Danh Phương and later used the courtesy name Doãn Hậu and the pen name Quế Đường. He came from Duyên Hà village in what is now Thái Bình Province. He died on 11 June 1784. The reference does not name the place of his death, so it cannot confirm the claim that he died in Hà Nam.

He worked in the eighteenth century as a poet, an encyclopedist, and a government official. Vietnamese sources group him with Lý Thường Kiệt, Trần Hưng Đạo, Chu Văn An, and Lý Tế Xuyên as one of the country's nationalist writers. He is also regarded as a learned generalist of the early modern period, admired for the shrewdness of his work and the very large volume he produced.

The reference offers no further details about his career, his specific

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