Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hien, the person who proposed the reform of the Vietnamese script, passed away.

Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hien , a famous linguist with controversial proposals to reform the Vietnamese script , has passed away. at 3:15 p.m. on May 11, 2025 at his home in Viet Tri City, Phu Tho Province, at the age of 90.

In 1953, he was sent by the State to study Russian in China. After graduating, he returned in October 1955 and was assigned to be in charge of the Russian department of the newly established Foreign Language School in Hanoi.

Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Hien. Photo: Thanh Hung.

In 1967, Hanoi University of Foreign Languages ​​was established, Mr. Bui Hien was assigned to be in charge of the Russian language department of this school.

He successfully defended his associate doctoral thesis (now PhD) at Lomonosov Moscow State University with excellent results in 1973.

After successfully defending his thesis, he returned to Vietnam and continued working at the Hanoi University of Foreign Languages. In 1974, Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hien was appointed Vice Principal of the Hanoi University of Foreign Languages. In 1978, he was transferred to the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam to be in charge of foreign languages ​​in educational reform.

Mr. Hien was then appointed as Deputy Director of the Institute of General Education Content and Teaching Methods under the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences. He held this position until his retirement in 1993.

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