The Siauw Giap
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The Siauw Giap (1922 in Malang, Dutch East Indies – 2002 in Leiden, Netherlands) was a Dutch sociologist and social historian of Chinese Indonesians.
In 1935 The became a student at the Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs school in Malang.[1] He studied history and sociology at the University of Indonesia from 1946 to 1949, which was during the period of the Indonesian National Revolution.[2]
Career and life in Europe
In 1948 he received a grant (Malino Scholarship) to study in the Netherlands, and studied sociology at the University of Amsterdam from 1951 to 1961, and from 1954 onwards was research assistant to Wim Wertheim.[2] During this time The married Wertheim's daughter Marijke Wertheim.[3] He then became a research-assistant at Yale University in 1961-1962 and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 1963 to 1966.[2] In 1963 The and Marijke Wertheim had a son, Wim Hay-ing.[4]
In 1966 he became a research fellow at the Sinological Institute at the University of Leiden, where he remained until 1987.[2]
The died in Leiden on February 20, 2002.
