Georges Coedès

George Coedes ( Coedes spoken, [ sedɛs ]; born August 10, 1886 in Paris, † October 2, 1969 same place ) was a French Southeast Asian researchers and Thaiist.

Coedes first worked at the prestigious École française d' Extrême -Orient in Hanoi. In 1918 he followed the German Oskar Frankfurt as head librarian of the National Library of Thailand in Bangkok, which had been reported as a pacifist of Siam 1917. In 1929 he returned to the L' Ecole Francaise d' Extreme Orient, to work as a director. After the situation in Vietnam after the Second World War were very turbulent, Coedes 1946 went to Paris to take up the post of Professor of the History of Southeast Asia at the L' Ecole des Langues Orientales. He also was a trustee until his death on Ennery Museum in Paris.

Coedes represented in his books and treatises of the view that developed the Southeast Asian culture largely under the influence of India. Today, we know that life forms were there very much independent and Indian culture accepted only superficially. But it has the merit to have rediscovered the ancient kingdom of Srivijaya that he suspected the current city Palembang on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and which extended through the Malay Peninsula and Java.

George Coedes died on October 2, 1969 in Paris.

Publications

• The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. (1968, 1975).
• The Making of South East Asia. In 1966.

• Thai Studies
• Historian
• High school teacher ( Ecole des langues orientales )
• Researcher of a museum in France
• Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• Frenchman
• Born in 1886
• Died in 1969
• Man