Louis-Charles Damais

Louis-Charles Damais (1911, Paris – 23 May 1966, Djakarta) was a researcher at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO). In 1937, he moved to Java, in what was then the Dutch East Indies, studying the monuments and history of the island. He remained in Java for the duration of World War II. After the war, the EFEO sent him to Hanoi, Vietnam. In 1952, he opened the Indonesian office of the EFEO in Jakarta, where he spent the rest of his life. The French international school in Jakarta was named Lycée Louis-Charles Damais after him in 2008.

Damais was born in Paris, France.

Damais had an early passion for foreign languages, where enrolled at the National School of Oriental Languages. He showed exceptional talent and obtained six degrees: Persian, oriental Arabic, literary Arabic, Turkish, Malay, and Chinese. He also spoke Hungarian, Dutch, English, Russian, Italian, and learned Sanskrit. At the Sorbonne, Damais received various graduate certificates: Arabic studies, Indology, and history of religions. In 1935, the Fondation de Montfort awarded him a scholarship to the University of Leiden to learn Javanese and Dutch.

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