P. E. de Josselin de Jong

He was honoured in a farewell symposium where he gave his concluding lecture titled “The Sacred Ruler in Indonesia” in Dutch.

Patrick and his mother moved to the Netherlands when he was aged six in 1928,[4] receiving his secondary education at Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden.

Under his father's influence, he enrolled in 1940 in a course in Indonesian Languages at Leiden University to prepare for a career as a linguist with the Dutch East Indies civil service.

From November 1943 till 1945 he was involved in the publication of The Home Service, a magazine based on the broadcasts by the BBC.

[7] Patrick began his first job in 1949 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden as assistant-curator.

He worked in the Islam Department in the section that studied Muslim peoples, especially those who lived in Indonesia.

[10] In January 1957, Patrick was appointed to professor of cultural anthropology at the Leiden University, his uncle having retired in September 1956.

In his inaugural lecture of 1957, Patrick termed his period as a turning point in the history of this study in the university.

His bibliography lists 208 titles (including reprints and translations), nine books, and edited works, seven in English, one in Dutch and one in Bahasa Indonesia.

[9] The principles adopted by Patrick have been classified under four headings namely, Kinship, Insular South-East Asia, Political Myths and Cultural anthropology, which are not considered “mutually exclusive” but do overlap.

identified four elements that constitute a structural core within the field of ethnological study, including circulating connubium, double unilineality, dual symbolic classification, and resilience from foreign cultural influences.

His career contribution was succinctly hailed with the words “continuation and innovation,” which view was upheld by his senior colleague G.W.