Đinh Nho Chấn

1863–1935 · scholar-physician · 15th generation, senior branch

A bachelor (tú tài) known as “cụ Hàn Cống”, from the village of Mỹ Hòa (today the commune of Sơn Tiến, Hương Sơn), son of Đinh Nho Thiếp. Selected by examination under the reign of Duy Tân, he was charged by the Huế court with compiling, within five to six months, a comparative pharmacopoeia of the remedies of China and Vietnam, with the help of a former court physician, the licentiate Phan Văn Mễ.

The work, Trung Việt dược tính hợp biên (中越藥性合編), with a preface dated the 15th day of the 8th month of the 1st year of Khải Định (1916), runs to sixteen volumes; it is held at the Hán Nôm Research Institute (shelfmark A.2702/1–16), and volume 8 bears the stamp of the library of the École française d'Extrême-Orient.