Russell Jones (orientalist): Difference between revisions

'''Russell Jones''' (14 April 1926 – 69 June 2019<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2020.1725328 Obituary: Russell Jones (1926–2019)], ''Indonesia and the Malay World'', Volume 48, 2020, Issue 140, pp. 136-143. Retrieved 14 November 2022.</ref>) was a British [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] who had researched [[Ethnic Malays|Malay]] and Indonesian languages and culture in the broad sense. He is a noted scholar of pre-modern Malay literature,<ref>e.g. ''Hikayat Raja Pasai'', Kuala Lumpur: Yayasan Karyawan, 1999.</ref> particularly when it comes to relating the texts to the manuscripts. His other interests include foreign influences on Malay and Indonesian, the Chinese in the Nanyang, and the history of papermaking. His research was focused on the paper and watermarks of Malay manuscripts.

Returning to Europe after [[Merdeka]], he resumed his studies which included Malay, Dutch and Arabic languages, and Islamic history, in the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], followed by three years of doctoral research at the [[University of Leiden]]. In 1961 he went to Australia, where he was a lecturer in Malay in the Department of Indonesian and Malay Studies under [[F. H. van Naerssen]] at the [[University of Sydney]]<ref>''[https://calendararchive.usyd.edu.au/Calendar/1963/1963.pdf Calendar of the University of Sydney for the Year 1963]'', Sydney: V. C. N. Blight, 1962, p. 45. Retrieved 14 November 2022.</ref> until 1965. His subsequent academic career until he retired in 1984 was in [[SOAS]], [[University of London]], and where he subsequently remained an honorary Research Fellow. Altogether he published about sixty articles and books.