Poerbatjaraka
Poerbatjaraka (alternative spelling:
Purbacaraka, 1 January 1884 – 25 July 1964) was a
Javanese/
Indonesian self-taught
philologist and professor, specialising in
Javanese literature. The eldest son of a
Surakarta royal 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.
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