Yi Tong-nyŏng
Appearance
Yi Dongnyeong 이동녕 李東寧 | |
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4th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea | |
In office 1926 | |
Preceded by | Yi Sang-ryong |
Succeeded by | Hong Jin |
7th, 8th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea | |
In office 1927–1933 | |
Preceded by | Kim Gu |
Succeeded by | Yang Gi-tak |
10th, 11th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea | |
In office 1935–1940 | |
Preceded by | Yang Gi-tak |
Succeeded by | Kim Gu |
Personal details | |
Born | Cheonan, Chungcheong-do, Joseon | February 17, 1869
Died | March 13, 1940 Sichuan Province, China | (aged 71)
Nationality | Korean |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 이동녕 |
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Hanja | 李東寧 |
Revised Romanization | I Dongnyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Yi Tongnyŏng |
Yi Dongnyeong (also spelled Yi Dong-nyung) was a Korean independence activist. He served as the fourth (1926), seventh (1927–1930), eighth (1930–1933), tenth (1935–1939), and eleventh (1939–1940) President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile in Shanghai, China.
Yi Dongnyeong, along with Yi Si-yeong,Yi Hoe-young and Yi Sang-ryong, started the Military School of the New Rising (Sinheung Mugwan Hakkyo 신흥무관학교) or Shinheung Military Academy in 1911.[1]
Notes
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- ^ Carter J. Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson, and Edward W. Wagner, Korea Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchokak / Korea Institute, Harvard University, 1990), 274.