Lombard, Denis

Born in the family of a famous historian - his father Maurice Lombar (1904-1965) was engaged in the medieval history of the Mediterranean. He graduated from the Lyceum of Louis the Great (1955), the Practical School of Higher Studies (1963) and the School of Oriental Languages ​​(now the National University of Oriental Languages ​​and Cultures) (1961-1963). He defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris (1990) ^[3] . He traveled a lot, traveled to various countries in Asia: China (1964-1965), Indonesia (1966-1969), and others. He was fluent in Chinese, Indonesian, Khmer and Thai. In 1969-1993 was director of the cultural studies department of the Higher School of Social Sciences , from 1993 until his death, director of the French School of the Far East . In 1973 he took an active part in the XXIX International Congress of Orientalists, which was held at the Sorbonne . He was one of the founders of the French oriental journal Archipelago ( Fr. Archipel ) (1971) and one of the initiators of the creation of the European colloquium on Indonesian and Malay studies (1979), the initiator of the French-Soviet colloquium on the problems of Southeast Asia and Indochina (1989 , 1991, 1997). Numerous works cover the problems of China and Southeast Asia, shipping in Asia. He was a supporter of the theory of history developed by Fernand Braudel ^[4] .

• Le Sultanat d'Atjeh au temps d'Iskandar Muda, 1607-1636. Paris: EFEO, 1967 (Rec. Parnikel BB // "Peoples of Asia and Africa", 1970, No. 6. P. 184–185).
• Les Chinois de Jakarta, temples et vie collective. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1980. (avec Claudine Salmon-Lombard)
• Marchands et hommes d'affaires asiatiques dans l'Océan Indien et la mer de Chine, XIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: EHESS, 1988 (avec Jean Aubin)
• Le Carrefour Javanais. Essai d'histoire Globale. Paris: EHESS, 1990.
• (Ed.) Rêver l'Asie, Exotisme et Littérature Coloniale aux Indes, en Indochine et en Insulinde. Paris: EHESS, 1993.
• Asia Maritima: Images et Réalité. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994.
• Mémoires d'un Voyage aux Indes Orientales par Augustin de Beaulieu. Paris: EFEO et Maisonneuve & Larose, 1996.
• Imperial China. Translation by Yulia Krizhevskaya. Moscow: AST, Astrel, 2004.

The encyclopedic work “The Javanese Crossroads” (1990), written by Denis Lombar, is a truly unrivaled masterpiece of historical research, based on comprehensive data and giving a complex image of several socio-cultural layers that form the face of Nusantara.

- .- Lyubov Goryaeva ^[6]

• The Nusantara Society has dedicated Deni Lombar to the XI European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malay Studies , which took place in 1999 in Moscow .
• The memory of the scientist is dedicated to the collection of Panggung Sejarah (History Arena). Persembahan kepada Prof. Dr. Denys Lombard Editor Henri Chamber-Loir, Hasan Muarif Ambary. Jakarta: EFEO, 2011.