About Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud
Lived 1899 – 1988 (aged 89). Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was a Dutch lexicographer, linguist and philologist.
Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud (20 February 1899 – 6 March 1988) was a German-born Dutch lexicographer and expert in Javanese literature. He especially became famous for his Javanese–Dutch dictionary that Poerwadarminto chose as the foundation of . Moreover, Pigeaud is also known because of his monumental study of and text catalogs of the manuscripts in the libraries of the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.
Biography Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was born on 20 February 1899, in Leipzig, Germany. He was the youngest of three children of Dr. Jan Jacob Pigeaud (1862–1942), a doctor, and his wife, Adolfina Adriana Frederika Bodde (1866–1947).
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Dutch lexicographer (1899-1988)
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Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was born on 20 February 1899 in Malang.
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Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud died on 6 March 1988 in Gouda.
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Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was a lexicographer, linguist and philologist.
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Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud was Dutch.
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