Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern [SEP] native language
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (April 6, 1833 – July 4, 1917) was a Dutch linguist and Orientalist. In the literature, he is usually referred to as H. Kern or Hendrik Kern; a few other scholars bear the same surname.
Life.
Hendrik Kern was born to Dutch parents in the Central-Javanese town of Purworejo in the Dutch East Indies, but when he was six his family repatriated to the Netherlands. When he entered grammar school, he added the extra
Prof. Dr. Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder S.J., who contributed an enormous quantity of original texts and serious scholarly study to the language, and his pupil and associate, Father Dr. Ignatius Kuntara Wiryamartana. Other eminent Indonesian scholars of the language include Poedjawijatna, Sumarti Suprayitna, Poerbatjaraka and Tardjan Hadiwidjaja.
See also.
- Bhinneka Tunggal Ika
- Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
- Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck
- Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder
- Old Malay
Bibliography.
- De Casparis, J. G., "Indonesian Palaeography : A History of