Robert van Niel, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, in 1922. Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca. Professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Hawaï, Honolulu († 2011).
Visitor (1 January 1986 – 30 June 1986)
The purpose of my year at NIAS was to work on a book about Java during the early ninetheenth century.