Nicolaus Adriani

Nicolaus Adriani

Nicolaus Adriani (15 September 1865, Oud-Loosdrecht – 5 August 1926, Poso, Central Sulawesi)[1] was a Christian linguist from the Netherlands who did work in Indonesia. He studied linguistics of the East Indies at Leiden University, obtaining his PhD in 1893.[2] He was sent by the Netherlands Bible Society.[3] He worked as a linguist in Poso, Central Sulawesi.[3]

In 1897 Adriani became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1918 he joined as a member.[4]

  1. ^ Adriani, N. in De leden van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: een demografisch perspectief: 1808 tot 2008, p. 247.
  2. ^ Fred Lanzing (2013), Heksen, geesten, spoken, weerwolven, en broeders. Het leven van de zendeling-schrijver Nicolaus Adriani in Ellendige levens: Nederlandse schrijvers in de negentiende eeuw, Uitgeverij Verloren, 2013, pp. 267-276.
  3. ^ a b J. A. Sarira. 1975. Benih yang Tumbuh 6 - Gereja Toraja. Jakarta: LPS DGI dan BPS Gereja Toraja.
  4. ^ "Nicolaus Adriani (1865 - 1926)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 6 August 2015.