Teuku Jacob

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Teuku Jacob (born December 6, 1929 in Peureulak, Aceh , † October 17, 2007 in Yogyakarta ) was an Indonesian paleoanthropologist . He was considered the founder and at the same time the most important representative of his subject in Indonesia.

Teuku Jacob began studying anatomy at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta in 1953 . After his first academic degree (1956) he turned to anthropology and was a student of Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald , who had discovered numerous fossils of Homo erectus in Indonesia . As a professor and temporarily rector of Gadjah Mada University (1981–1986), Jacob was for many years the administrator of an impressive collection of hominid finds. He became internationally known after the discovery of Homo floresiensis , which he denied status as an independent species and instead interpreted it as pathologically altered, anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) .

In an obituary in the journal Science it was pointed out that Teuku Jacob was a "key figure" in the struggle for Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands after the Second World War , during the so-called Indonesian Revolution . Jacob produced a nationalist radio program at the time. From 1982 to 1987 he was a member of the Indonesian parliament .

Jacob died at the age of 76 at the Dr. Sardjito Hospital from the consequences of a liver disease that has existed for years. He was bid farewell with a military salute after an academic ceremony attended by hundreds of university members and foreign guests and buried in the university cemetery of Gadjah Mada University . Jacob left behind his wife and a daughter.

Fonts

  • Some problems pertaining to the racial history of the Indonesian region: a study of human skeletal and dental remains from several prehistoric sites in Indonesia and Malaysia. Dissertation, Utrecht University, Utrecht 1967.
  • A Human Mandible from Anjar Urn Field, Indonesia. In: Journal of the National Medical Association. Volume 56, No. 5, 1964, pp. 421-426, PMC 2610761 (free full text)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “A gigantic presence.” Obituary in: Science . Volume 318, November 9, 2007, p. 895, full text
  2. ^ Teuku Jacob et al .: Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities. In: PNAS . Volume 103, 2006, pp. 13421-13426, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0605563103
  3. ^ "Indonesians in Focus: Teuku Jacob." Obituary by A. Junaidi and Sri Wahyuni ( Memento from November 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on: planetmole.org from October 19, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Teuku
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian paleoanthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Peureulak, Aceh
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 2007
Place of death Yogyakarta