Phạm Huy Thông

Phạm Huy Thông (1916–1988) was a Vietnamese scholar, educator, archaeologist, poet and social scientist. A Bachelor of Law graduate of the University of Indochina, in 1937 he went to study in Paris, France.[1] In 1949 he joined the French Communist Party, and in 1953 joined the Labour Party. In 1952 he was expelled from France and was put on probation in Haiphong.[1] He later escaped from prison and became Rector of Hanoi University of Education (1956–1966), Director of the Institute of Archaeology (1967–1988), professor and Vice-Chairman of the Social Sciences Committee,[2] and was a member of National Assemblies II and III. In 1987, he was elected a foreign academic of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic.

References
  1. "Phạm Huy Thông (1916-1988)" (in Vietnamese). Hungyen.gov.vn. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  2. Luong, Hy V. (2010). Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006. University of Hawaii Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8248-3370-1.


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