1884 - 1964
Poerbatjaraka Indonesian Educator
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| First Name |
Poerbatjaraka
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1883
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| Birthplace |
Surakarta, Surakarta Sunanate, Dutch East Indies
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| Died |
1964
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| Place of Death |
Jakarta, Indonesia
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| Nationality |
Indonesian
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| Occupation Text |
Philologist, professor
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| Occupation |
Educator
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Poerbatjaraka (alternative spelling: Purbacaraka, 1 January 1884 – 25 July 1964) was a Javanese/Indonesian self-taught philologist and professor, specialising in Javanese literature. The son of a Surakarta courtier in the Dutch East Indies, he showed interest in Javanese literature at an early age, reading from books in the court's collection. Despite attending only primary school, his knowledge of Dutch and Javanese literature allowed him to take a position at the colony's Archaeology Service, and then at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He was allowed to obtain a doctor's degree at Leiden. He then returned to the colony to work at a Batavia (today Jakarta) museum, cataloguing Javanese texts and writing scholarly works. After Indonesia's independence, he became a professor at the universities of Indonesia, Gajah Mada, and Udayana.
