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Java-Bode
De Java-Bode was a newspaper that was published from 1852 to 1957 in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. History The newspaper was first published on August 11, 1852, initially appearing twice a week. Under editor-in-chief Conrad Busken Huet, the Java-Bode became a daily newspaper as of December 1, 1869. From March 1942 to 1949 publication was suspended due to the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. The last issue appeared in March 1957. Batavia was already Jakarta in independent Indonesia. The newspaper had a liberal tone, but under Busken Huet it became more conservative. From 1932 onwards, under Henri Zentgraaff, who remained as editor-in-chief until 1939, the course even became very "right-wing", which was heavily criticized by the writer E. du Perron. Well-known editors and journalists have been associated with the Java-Bode, including Conrad Busken Huet (editor-in-chief 1868-1873), Jan Eduard van Someren Brand (feuilleton writer from 1889), Dirk Verbeek (editor-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Salomonson
Herman Salomonson, also known as Melis Stoke, (March 24, 1892, in Amsterdam – October 7, 1942, in Mauthausen concentration camp) was a Dutch journalist, writer, and poet of Jewish heritage. In 1940 he was arrested by the German occupiers of the Netherlands and murdered in 1942. Biography Herman Salomonson was born in 1892 as the son of Dinah Wertheim, daughter of an Amsterdam banker, and Maurits Salomonson, child of a Jewish merchant family. He grew up in a wealthy, liberal environment. He initially studied at the Technical University in Delft. After the outbreak of the World War I, First World War, he broke off his studies and moved to Belgium, from where he reported on the war events for an Amsterdam newspaper. In 1915, Salomonson returned to the Netherlands and became editor of the weekly newspaper De Groene Amsterdammer. He gained notoriety through humorous “rhyming chronicles” of daily news and wrote his first novel. He published often under the pseudonym Melis Stoke, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |