Nguyễn Văn Tố was a famous patriotic personality before the August Revolution. He worked at the French School of the Far East (French: École française d'Extreme-Orient, EFEO - an agency of France established in Indochina in 1898), in charge of managing the bulletin of the School. He is a journalist who wrote in French and Vietnamese on many fields of social sciences and humanities in many contemporary newspapers and magazines such as the French-Annamese Judiciary Review (French: Revue Judiciaire Franco-Annamite), Nam Phong Magazine, Indochina Weekly, Đông Thanh Magazine, Thanh Nghị Newspaper, Tri Tân Newspaper... He also participated in the organizations in order to raise the people’s intellect such as the Trí Tri Society (Society of Intellect and Knowledge) and especially the National Language Propagating Association whose he was one of the founders and the Chairman. This article mainly refers to family situation and social activities of Ứng Hòe Nguyễn Văn Tố before 1945 and to precious materials he has left to the Social Sciences Library.
Tác giả
Ngô Thế Long
MA, Former staff of Institute of Social Sciences Information, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
