Đinh Văn Chất

19th c.

Doctor (tiến sĩ), Cần Vương martyr

A doctor of the extended Đinh house, he joined King Hàm Nghi's Cần Vương resistance. Captured by the French, sentenced to death and to the extermination of three lineages, he was beheaded on 28 November 1887. His brother Đinh Văn Uyển was the teacher of Phan Bội Châu.

Born

1843 — Kim Khê, Nghi Lộc, Nghệ An, Đại Việt

Died

1887 — Thanh Chương, Nghệ An (exécution)