Nguyễn Khản

Nguyễn Khản (Chinese: 阮侃, 1734 - 1787), courtesy name Đức Như (德如), pseudonym Thuật Hiên (述軒) or Escape Oldman at Hồng Mountain (鴻山遯翁), posthumous name Hoành-Mẫn tiên-sinh thượng-đẳng tối-linh phúc-thần (橫敏先生上等最靈福神), was an Annamese official and poet.

Nguyễn Khản 阮侃
Prime Minister
In office 1760–1787
Personal details
Born	1734 Tiên Điền village, Nghi Xuân district, Nghệ An region, Annam
Died	1787 Đông Kinh, Vietnam
Parent(s)	Nguyễn Nghiễm (father) Đặng Thị Dương (mother)
Occupation	Politician, poet

Biography

Nguyễn Khản was born in 1734 in Tiên Điền village, Nghi Xuân district, Đức Quang prefect, Nghệ An region of the Revival Lê dynasty. He was the first child (of 21 children) of the Chancellor Nguyễn Nghiễm. Nguyễn Khản was a child of his father's first wife (of 8 women) who has a name Đặng Thị Dương, she was the second daughter of official Đặng Sĩ Vinh.

He passed the official government examination as a Jinshi in 1760 and then became a teacher of the Crown Prince Trịnh Tông. So he changed his name as Nguyễn Hân (阮欣). In 1767, lord Trịnh Sâm changed his name as Nguyễn Lệ (阮儷). In 1778, he re-changed his name as Nguyễn Khản.

Genealogy

Family

• Father : Nguyễn Nghiễm (阮儼, 1708 - 1776)
• Mother : Đặng Thị Dương (鄧氏陽; courtesy name Ôn 温)
• Brothers : Nguyễn Nễ, Nguyễn Du
• Sisters :

Spouse

• Đặng Thị Vệ (1736 - 1783)
  • 2 daughters : Nguyễn Thị Bành, Nguyễn Thị Thái
• [...] Thủy (1743 - 1780)
  • 3 sons : Nguyễn Tuấn, Nguyễn Lễ, Nguyễn Hân
• ?
  • 5 sons : Nguyễn Tiệp, Nguyễn Bằng, Nguyễn Đường, Nguyễn Đảng, Nguyễn Xưng
  • 3 daughters : Nguyễn Thị Xuân, Nguyễn Thị Nga, Nguyễn Thị Hương

See also

• Nguyễn Du
• Trịnh Tông
• Phạm Đình Hổ

References

• Hoan-châu Nghi-Tiên Nguyễn-gia thế-phả (驩州宜仙阮家世譜).
• Biography of Nguyễn Khản
• Nguyễn Khản's poems
• Nguyễn Khản's poems at Và Temple
• About the Lament of the soldier's wife translation of Nguyễn Khản
• Nguyễn Khản and Trịnh Sâm
• About the duke of Hoành Mẫn