An Honor for an Old Javanese Literature Expert

The National Library and the Archipelagic Manuscripts Society invited Stuart Owen Robson to Malang. He and Peter Josephus Zoetmulder compiled the monumental work of the Old Javanese to English dictionary.

Seno Joko Suyono

December 3, 2019

HE has dedicated his life to old Javanese literature. This tall man with a quiet demeanor from Australia is now 78 years old. He is Professor Doctor Stuart Owen Robson. In 1971, Robson published Wangbang Wideya: A Javanese Panji Romance, the result of his doctoral dissertation at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Robson is also known because he collaborated with Father Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder to make the monumental work Old Javanese-English

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