Author: KERN, H. (Johan Hendrik Caspar).
Title: Verspreide geschriften, onder zijn toezicht verzameld. (Met:) Diversen en Nalezing (en) levensberichten.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1913-1928. 15 volumes & Register en bibliografie (1929) & Supplement (1936), together 17 volumes. Original blue cloth and wrappers. Hendrik Kern (1833-1917), a Dutch linguist and Orientalist, is regarded as one of the founding fathers of Oriental studies in the Netherlands. He displayed an extraordinary ability to study, and to master, a wide variety of languages: European, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Malayan, etc. He laid the foundation for Austronesian studies. It is as a comparativist and a philologist that he gained his great reputation. His interests were not restricted to pure linguistics.

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