See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD DOUWES See also:

• DEKKER (or DECKER), THOMAS (c. 1570-1641)
• EDWARD DOUWES DEKKER (182o-1887)
• DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666)

DEKKER (182o-1887)  , Dutch writer, commonly known as MULTATULI, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam on the 2nd of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1820 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a See also:

• SHIP

ship's See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain, intended his son for See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, but this humdrum prospect disgusted him, and in 1838 he went out to See also:

• JAVA

Java, and obtained a See also:

• POST

post in the Inland See also:

• REVENUE
• REVENUE (0. Fr. revenu, from revenir, to return)

Revenue . He See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose from one position to another, until, in 1851, he found himslf assistant-See also:

• RESIDENT

resident at See also:

• AMBOYNA (Dutch Ambon)

Amboyna, in the See also:

• MOLUCCAS, or SPICE ISLANDS

Moluccas . In i857he was transferred to Lebak, in the See also:

• BANTAM

Bantam residency. of Java . By this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, however, all the secrets of Dutch See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration were known to him, and he had begun to protest against the abuses of the colonial See also:

• SYSTEM

system . In consequence he was threatened with dismissal from his See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office for his openness of speech, and, throwing up his See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment, he returned to See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland in a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of fierce indignation . He determined to expose in detail the scandals he had witnessed, and he began to do so in newspaper articles and See also:

• PAMPHLETS

pamphlets . Little See also:

• NOTICE

notice, however, was taken of his protestations until, in 186o, he published, under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of " Multatuli," his See also:

• ROMANCE

romance entitled Max Havelaar . An See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt was made to ignore this brilliant and irregular See also:

• BOOK

book, but in vain; it was read all over See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . The exposure of the abuse of See also:

• FREE

free labour in the Dutch Indies was See also:

• COMPLETE

complete, although there were not wanting apologists who accused See also:

• DEKKER (or DECKER), THOMAS (c. 1570-1641)
• DEKKER, EDWARD DOUWES (182o-1887)
• DEKKER, JEREMIAS DE (1610-1666)

Dekker's terrible picture of being over-coloured . He was now fairly launched on literature, and he lost no time in See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing Love Letters (1861), which, in spite of their mild See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title, proved to be See also:

• MORDANT

mordant satires of the most rancorous and unsparing See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . The See also:

• LITERARY

literary merit of Multatuli's See also:

• WORK

work was much contested; he received an unexpected and most valuable ally in See also:

• VOSMAER, CAREL (1826-1888)

Vosmaer .

He continued to write much, and to See also:

• FAGGOT

faggot his miscellanies in See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform volumes called Ideas, of which seven appeared between 1862 and 1877 . Douwes quitted Holland, shaking off her dust from his feet, and went to live at See also:

• WIESBADEN

Wiesbaden . He now made several attempts to gain the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, and one of his pieces, The School for Princes, 1875 (published in the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Ideas), pleased himself so highly that he is said to have styled it the greatest See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama ever written . It is a See also:

• FINE

fine poem, written in See also:

• BLANK (from the Fr. blanc, white)

blank See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, like an See also:

• ENGLISH

English tragedy, and not in Dutch Alexandrines; but it is undramatic, and has not held the boards . Douwes Dekker moved his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence to Nieder See also:

• INGELHEIM (Ober-Ingelheim and Nieder-Ingelheim)

Ingelheim, on the See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine, and there he died on the 19th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1887 . Towards the end of his career he was the centre of a See also:

• CROWD, CROUTH, CROWTH

crowd of disciples and imitators, who did his reputation no service; he is now, again, in danger of being read too little . To under-stand his fame, it is necessary to remember the sensational way in which he See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke into the dulness of Dutch literature fifty years ago, like a See also:

• FLAME (Lat. flamma; the root flag- appears in flagrare, to burn, blaze, and Gr. d, XEryew)

flame out of the Far See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East . He was ardent, provocative, perhaps a little hysterical, but he made himelf heard all over Europe . He brought an exceedingly severe See also:

• INDICTMENT (from Anglo-Fr. enditernent, enditer, to charge; Lat. in, against, dictare, declare)

indictment against the egotism and brutality of the administrators of Dutch See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, and he framed it in a literary See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form which was brilliantly See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . Not satisfied with this, he attacked, in a fury that was sometimes See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

blind, everything that seemed to him falsely conventional in Dutch See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, society and morals . He respected nothing, he See also:

• LEFT

left no institution untouched . Now that it is possible to look back upon Multatuli without See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, we see in him, not what Dutch See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm saw,—" the second writer of Europe in the nineteenth See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century " (See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor See also:

• HUGO, GUSTAV VON (1764–1844)
• HUGO, VICTOR MARIE (1802-1885)

Hugo being presumably the first), but a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who was a powerful and glowing author, yet hardly an artist, a reckless enthusiast, who was inspired by indignation and a burning sense of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice, who cared little for his means if only he could produce his effect .

He is seen to his best and worst in Max Havelaar; his Ideas, hard, fantastic and sardonic, seldom offer any solid See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction to the See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign reader . But Multatuli deserves remembrance, if only on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the unequalled effect his See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing had in rousing Holland from the intellectual and moral lethargy in which she See also:

• LAY

lay See also:

• HALF

half a century ago . (E .