Bijdragen and the study of Indonesian languages and literatures

became generally known as 'Gericke en Roorda '. 3 In the period between 1853, the year of the appearance of the first issue of Bijdragen, and Roorda's death in 1874, his name appears only three times in the table of contents: he wrote two papers dealing with specific Javanese texts (1860, 91 and 1864, 129), and a response to Van der Tuuk's attack on his linguistic methods (1864, 144).In fact, the only outstanding figure for whom Bijdragen was the first and foremost publication medium was H. Kern, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Leiden from 1865 to 1903, whose scholarly work increasingly focused on the study of Old Javanese and comparative Austronesian or Malayo-Polynesian linguistics.His writings dominated Bijdragen for nearly 50 years: his first article was published in 1869, and up to his death in 1917 his contributions on a variety of subjects continued to appear in the journal with great regularity and frequency.Major works, such as his studies on Old Javanese grammar (464, 465, 595, 601, 622, 642, 651, 668, 716, covering the period 1889-1907) and his translation with commentary of one of the most important Old Javanese texts, the Ndgarakrtdgama, were first published in serial form in Bijdragen (1908Bijdragen ( -1914, 753, 776, 805, 821, 826, 841, 852, 861, 868), 753, 776, 805, 821, 826, 841, 852, 861, 868).Later, this series was brought together in the fifteen volumes of Kern's Verspreide Geschriften, as were all his other articles.But if we look at the output of H.N. van der Tuuk, an equally great scholar, if in many respects Kern's opposite, the situation is quite different.Van der Tuuk's fame rests on his grammar and dictionary of the Batak language, his scattered but original and valuable studies on Malay language and literature and his even more scattered but also even more important materials on Malayo-Polynesian comparative linguistics, and finally on his posthumously published four-volume Kawi- Balineesch-Nederlandsch Woordenboek (1897-1912).This book opened up the study of Old Javanese literature, a typically Dutch specialization, thanks partly to the invaluable collection of manuscripts which Van der Tuuk left to the University of Leiden.However, very little of all this transpired in Bijdragen.Only two of the major early publications appeared in Bijdragen, one being the first draft of Van der Tuuk's treatise on the Batak writing and sound systems (1856, 40) which later was to form the first part of his Batak grammar (1864), and the other being his description of Malay manuscripts held by the Royal Asiatic Society (1866, 164).Besides these, only six minor publications appeared in Bijdragen, three of them communications by Kern taken from Van der Tuuk's letters.Similarly, the name of another great pioneer, B.F. Matthes, hardly appears in the table of contents of Bijdragen.However, this Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap (Netherlands Bible Society) translator laid the founda

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