Nguyễn Khản


Nguyễn Khản, courtesy name Đức Như, pseudonym Thuật Hiên or Escape Oldman at Hồng Mountain, posthumous name Hoành-Mẫn tiên-sinh thượng-đẳng tối-linh phúc-thần, was an Annamese official and 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 the Chancellor Nguyễn Nghiễm. Nguyễn Khản was a child of his father's first wife 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. In 1767, lord Trịnh Sâm changed his name as Nguyễn Lệ. In 1778, he re-changed his name as Nguyễn Khản.

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