Education
Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
He was famous for efforts to compare insular Southeast Asia and the Asian Seas to the Mediterranean area. Denys Lombard was born in Marseilles. Denys possessed at least six academic degrees, including a graduate degree in history and four degrees in languages (Chinese, Malay-Indonesian, Cambodian and Thai).
He spoke over a dozen languages.
Denys Lombard was the head of the Division des Aires Culturelles in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ) and the director of the École Français d"Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1993 to 1998.