Teuku Iskandar


Teuku Iskandar is an Indonesian scholar, literary critic and lexicographer.

Short biography

In 1950, he graduated from Leiden University, in 1955 he defended his doctoral thesis on the Hikayat Aceh, which was later published as a monograph.
He was among the founders of the Syiah Kuala University. For about 13 years he taught at various universities in Malaysia, collaborated with Institute of Language and Literature of Malaysia to compile the dictionary Kamus Dewan, which became the first and still the most authoritative explanatory dictionary of the Malay language. Then he worked at the University of Brunei Darussalam where he received the title of Professor. After having moved to the Netherlands, he became a professor on Malay and Acehnese literature at the University of Leiden.

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