Background
Rahder was born in Lubuk Begalung, the Dutch East Indies, now a subdistrict of Padang, where his father was governor of the west coast of Sumatra.
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Johannes Rahder
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Education
Utrecht University.
Career
The fact that he requested as a birthday present a library when he was five years old suggests that he was a precocious child. He earned his doctorate at the University of Utrecht for an edition of the text of Daśabhûmikasûtra (1926). Barely a year later, he exchanged the chair for that in Japanese language and literature at Leiden University.
In 1946 he resigned from his post at Leiden, and joined the faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he had been a visiting professor during 1937–1938.
The following year he went to Yale University, where he was Professor of Japanese from 1947 until his retirement in 1965.
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March 3, 1988 (aged 89)