Edward Duyker

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Full Name	Edward Duyker
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Mar 21, 1955(1955-03-21)
Age	69
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aries

Edward Duyker Biography

Edward Duyker is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on March 21, 1955 in Australia.

Edward Duyker (born 21 March 1955) is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne.

Duyker was recruited by the Australian Department of Defence in Canberra in early 1981 and eventually worked in the Joint Intelligence Organization. He left in July 1983 to take up a position as a Teaching Fellow at Griffith University, Brisbane, but ultimately settled in Sydney as a full-time author in 1984.

Edward Duyker Net Worth

Edward Duyker is one of the richest Historian from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Edward Duyker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Edward Duyker was born to a father from the Netherlands and a mother from Mauritius. His mother has ancestors from Cornwall who emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1849, and he is related to the Australian landscape painter Lloyd Rees. He is also related to the French painter Félix Lionnet. He attended St Joseph’s School, Malvern, Victoria and completed his secondary studies at De La Salle College, Malvern. After undergraduate studies at La Trobe University, he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Melbourne (where he also studied Bengali language), and was supervised by the Indian philosopher Sibnarayan Ray. He received his PhD in 1981 for a thesis on the participation of the tribal Santals in the Maoist Naxalite insurgency in India. In the course of field-research in West Bengal, he lost 20 kilograms in weight through dysentery and malnutrition – an ordeal he recounted in article ‘The Word in the Field’.

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In 1995 Paul Brunton described Duyker’s (and Per Tingbrand’s) Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence (1995) as ‘a major contribution to textual scholarship’.

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Ehsan Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Edward Duyker celebrates birthday on March 21 of every year.

Nature’s Argonaut (1998), Edward Duyker’s biography of Daniel Solander the naturalist on HM Bark Endeavour and the first Swede to circle the globe, was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier’s History Awards in 1999. Duyker is also the co-editor, with Per Tingbrand, of Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753–1782 (1995), With his mother Maryse Duyker he published the first English translation of the journal of the explorer Bruny d’Entrecasteaux in 2001. It has become an important Western Australian and Tasmanian historical source and, with its annotations and introduction, informed public debate regarding the heritage-listing of Recherche Bay in Tasmania. Citizen Labillardière (2003), Duyker’s biography of the naturalist Jacques Labillardière, won the General History Prize among the New South Wales Premier’s History Awards.