his life and his works. All were published and have been reprinted many times in many ways for many later researchers to get to understand him. Translations and publications In the cultural area, Truong Vinh Ky was admired greatly as a scholar with broad and profound knowledge in various fields of study, both in social and natural sciences. He had considerable achievements in collecting, transcription and translation from foreign languages into Vietnamese. Some of his best-known transcription and translation works include Truyện Kiều (The Tale of Kieu), Lục Vân Tiên (written in Chinese characters as 陸雲僊, by Nguyen Dinh Chieu), Phan Trần, and Gia huấn ca (Book of Familial Educating), Lục súc tranh công (The Six Animals Vying for Services). References Pétrus Ky, Britannica , Bentre 1837 births 1898 deaths 19th-century journalists 19th-century male writers 19th-century translators 19th-century Vietnamese historians Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur French–Vietnamese translators Male journalists People from Bến Tre Province Vietnamese journalists Vietnamese Roman Catholics Vietnamese translators Vietnamese–French translators