Tjan Tjoe Som
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Tjan Tjoe Som (Chinese: 曾珠森, 1903–1969) was an Indonesian Chinese intellectual and sinologist at the University of Indonesia.
Tjan was the son of a prominent Muslim Chinese family in Surakarta, Dutch East Indies.[1][2] His first education was in the local HCS (Dutch-Chinese School) and then in the AMS (General Middle School) in Yogyakarta.[2]
His brother Tjan Tjoe Siem also became an academic (of Javanese literature).
Academic career
In 1935 he went to the Netherlands to study Sinology at Leiden University.[2] He obtained a PhD in Sinology in 1949 and was appointed as a professor there.[2] In 1952 he returned to Indonesia and became head of the department of Sinology at the FSUI (Fakultas Sastra Universitas Indonesia - Literature Department at the University of Indonesia).[2]
