Untung Surapati

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Untung Surapati ("Hero of Indonesia")
Sultan Amangkurat II of Mataram (top right) observes the battle of Untung Surapati against Captain Tack from the Dutch East India Company ( ca.1684 ).

Untung Surapati (born 1660 ; died December 5, 1706 ) was an Indonesian fighter in Java who led several revolts against the Dutch East India Company . In 1975 he was awarded the title of National Hero of Indonesia .

The Dutch writer Melati van Java (1853–1927), who was born in Java , deals with the fate of the guerrilla leader in two of her "historical-romantic" novels from the history of Java ("historically romantic schets uit de geschiedenis van Java"): Soerapati and Van slaaf tot above .

That in Indonesia sold DDR - warship Ribnitz-Damgarten , a corvette of Parchim class , was from Indonesia to him in Untung Suropati renamed.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Lisbeth Littrup (Ed.): Identity in Asian Literature. 2013, p. 112, note 12 ( partial online view )
  2. die-marine.de - accessed on June 17, 2017

literature

  • Pranadipa Mahawira: Cinta Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia: Terlengkap & Terupdate. 2013 ( partial online view )

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