Johan van Manen

Mari Albert Johan van Manen (Nijmegen, 16 April 1877 – Kolkata, 17 March 1943) was a Dutch orientalist and the first Dutch Tibetologist. A large portion of his collected manuscripts and art and ethnographic projects now make up the Van Manen collection at Leiden University's Kern Institute.[1][2]

The Dutch orientalist Johan van Manen in 1898

References
  1. Yang Enhong. "Johan van Manen: The founder of Tibetology in the Netherlands". International Institute for Asian Studies. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Mari Albert Johan van Manen". Dutch Studies on South Asia, Tibet and classical Southeast Asia. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
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