Dirk Aedsge Buiskool
(1957) studied history at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, from 1981 until 1988. In 1989 he was a lecturer of German History at the Groningen Volksuniversiteit and from 1990 until 1995 a lecturer of European History at the University of North Sumatra as well as at the Teacher Trainings College in Medan, Indonesia. From 1995 until 2000 he was a Travel Consultant at Tri Jaya Tour & Travel in Medan. In 2000 he co-founded Hotel Deli River in Medan of which he was director until 2019. Besides contributions in different journals such as in Spieghel Historiael, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and Azië Magazine, and in books such as Medan beeld van een stad (Medan impression of a city), The Dutch Encounter with Asia 1600–1950 and Kota Lama Kota Baru, The History of the Indonesian City, he published De reis van Harm Kamerlingh Onnes, which received the Linschoten Award in 1999. In 2019 he received his PhD at Utrecht University with the thesis Prominent Chinese During the Rise of a Colonial City Medan 1890–1942.