

He wrote many works on pedagogy and started a review on the topic. By 1942, he had risen to become an inspector of elementary public instruction in Tonkin. Kim returned to Vietnam in September 1911, commenced his career as a teacher in Annam and slowly rose in the educational hierarchy. In 1908, he won a scholarship from the École Coloniale (Colonial School) to begin his training as a teacher at the École Normale of Melun ( Seine-et-Marne). In 1905, Kim was sent to France as an employee of a private company.



Kim's early career was as an interpreter, serving in Ninh Bình in northern Vietnam, then known as the protectorate of Tonkin. He then worked in the public service of the French administration. Nevertheless, the movement was crushed, and when Kim grew up, he initially studied in Hanoi at schools reserved for the ruling elite. The movement was particularly popular in the Nghệ An-Hà Tĩnh region, which had boasted a long line of nationalist icons. In the immediate decade afterwards, the province was the scene of a guerrilla movement led by Phan Đình Phùng that attempted to expel the French authorities. At the time, French Indochina had just been formed after the colonization of Vietnam, and Hà Tĩnh was part of the central region, which had become a French protectorate under the name of Annam. Kim was born in Nghi Xuân, Hà Tĩnh Province, in northern central Vietnam in 1883. Trần Trọng Kim ( Chữ Nôm: 陳仲金 1883 – December 2, 1953), courtesy name Lệ Thần, was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a state established with the support of Imperial Japan in 1945 after Japan had seized direct control of Vietnam from the Vichy French colonial forces during the Second World War. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of chữ Nôm, chữ Hán and chữ Quốc ngữ.
