Historian to receive honor

Historian to receive honor

YOGYAKARTA: Leading historian Sartono Kartodirdjo of Gadjah Mada University will receive an honorary doctorate degree in June from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, for inventing the "multi-visionary" approach to history.

Antara quoted a professor at the oldest university in Berlin, Dr. Ingrid Wessel, as saying yesterday that most historians used limited academic approaches, such as the political or economic sides of history.

Sartono, by contrast, has succeeded in establishing a new horizon in the way scientists approach the science of history, Wessel said. Sartono's books are now a mandatory read for every history student.

The honor will be given concurrently at the tenth European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malaysian Studies on June 17 to 22. (swe)