Denys Lombard

Denys Lombard (4 Feb. 1938, Marseille – 8 Jan. 1998, Paris, France) was a French historian and researcher specializing in South East Asia, in particular Indonesia, who headed École Français d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1993 to 1998.

He initiated his career as EFEO member in Jakarta (1966−1969) before being appointed director of the Division des Aires Culturelles at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). He was one of the major proponents of “global” and “comparative” history applied to cultural areas, in that case maritime Southeast Asia, an area he came to define as ‘The Asian Mediterranean’.

He was married to another scholar of Asian civilizations, Claudine Salmon.

Publications

Le Sultanat d’Atjeh, EFEO, 1967.
[with Winarsih Arifin & Minnie Wibisono], Histoires courtes d’Indonésie : soixante-huit “tjerpén” (1933−1965), EFEO, 1968.
Introduction à l’Indonésien, S.E.C.M.I, 1976; repr. 1985; repr. 1991 (3d rev. ed).
[with Claudine Salmon-Laurent] Les Chinois de Jakarta, temples et vie collective, Maison des sciences de l’Homme, 1980.
Le Carrefour javanais : essai d’histoire globale [The Javanese Crossroads: Towards a Global History], 3 Vols., EHESS, 1990.
[ed. with Jean Aubin] Marchands et Hommes d’affaires asiatiques/ Rêver l’Asie: exotisme et littérature coloniale aux Indes, en Indochine et en Insulinde, EHESS, 1993. | ENG Asian merchants and businessmen in the Indian Ocean and the China Sea, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978−0−19−564109−7.
Asia Maritima : images et réalité, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1994.
Nusa Jawa : silang budaya : kajian sejarah terpadu, Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 1996. ISBN 978−979−605−454−1.
[as scientific editor] Mémoires d’un voyage aux Indes orientales par Augustin de Beaulieu, Paris, EFEO et Maisonneuve & Larose, 1996. ISBN 2706812443.
[with Winarsih Arifin] Kerajaan Aceh zaman Sultan Iskandar Muda (1607−1636), Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia : Forum Jakartas-Paris : EFEO, 2006. ISBN 978−979−9100−49−8.

Photo via Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia.