Maarten Maartensz

Intro Multatuli

  Multatuli en de Filosofie

  Domela Nieuwenhuis: 
  "Multatuli als ketter
    bij uitnemendheid"

IDEEN van Multatuli

   Geloofsbelydenis
   Gebed van de onwetende
   Conceptie van de IDEËN
   Zelfportret uit de Max 
      Havelaar
   "Multatuli tout pur" -
      brief van 9 april 1856
   De dadels van Hassan

   Index IDEEN 1
   Index IDEEN 2
   Index IDEEN 3
   Index IDEEN 4
   Index IDEEN 5
   Index IDEEN 6
   Index IDEEN 7

  Index Woutertje Pieterse

   Specialiteiten

    Minnebrieven
 

Welcome to my Multatuli pages!      

Multatuli was the alias of Eduard Douwes Dekker, a Dutch philosopher, writer and social reformer who lived from 1820-1887.

Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker
1820-1887

He wrote an amazingly beautiful Dutch, had many interesting ideas, and was one of the few true geniuses writing in Dutch.

If you do not read Dutch, there is a translation of "Max Havelaar" by Multatuli in Penguin Classics, while a considerable amount of his work that he published himself has been translated into German.

Of the "Max Havelaar" - a classic attack on Dutch colonialism, first published in 1860 - there are many translations in many languages, including French and Korean.

If you do read Dutch, see the left pane for a part of Multatuli's IDEAS in Dutch, with my comments.

My comments to IDEAS 1 have been finished in a first version on January 27, 2003. Later that year folllowed IDEAS 2 and IDEAS 3. In May 2005 the full text of and comments on IDEAS 4 followed. IDEAS 5 and IDEAS 6 and IDEAS 7 were added in the first half year of 2006.

I now have commented all books of IDEAS that Multatuli wrote, together over 2000 closely printed pages and must have done something that happens in Holland at most once in 150 years.

For more see Introductie Ideen - if you read Dutch, for else you must abstain from the pleasures of meeting a great Dutch writer.

There also are now excerpts of my comments and indexes to them. These are complete for the first three volumes.

I wish you pleasurable and instructive reading and computing!

last update: 06 January 2010