Name Maurice Durand | Role Linguist | |
Books An Introduction to Vietnamese Literature | ||
Maurice M. Durand (Hanoi, 2 August 1914 – 1966) was a French-Vietnamese linguist.
His father, Gustave Durand, was chief translator of Vietnamese at the Palais de Justice, Hanoi, was from Provence and his mother from Kien An. He studied in France and married a Belgian violinist named Sylvie Durand. During World War II he was an officer in Cameroon and Chad. In 1946 he returned to Vietnam to teach at and then direct the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient. On his return to France he taught Vietnamese at the Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes.
He bequeathed his, and his father's, collection of publications, transliterations, photographs, research notes, and microfilm to Yale University, where they are now held in 121 boxes at the Sterling Memorial Library.