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A French poet ; born at Nancy, May 31, 1738 ; died at Paris, Jan. 18, 1815.
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Multatuli
Dutch writer
Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli (from Latinmulta tulī, "I have suffered much"), was a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar (1860), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia).
He is considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors.[1]
Family and education
Eduard Douwes Dekker was born in Amsterdam,[2] the fourth of five children of a Mennonite family: the other children were Catharina (1809–1849), Pieter Engel (1812–1861), Jan (1816–1864), and Willem (1823–1840).[3] Their mother, Sietske Eeltjes Klein (sometimes written "Klijn"), was born on Ameland.[3]
Multatuli’s father, Engel Douwes Dekker, worked as a sea captain from the Zaan district of North Holland.[4] Engel inherited the surnames of both his parents, Pieter Douwes and Engeltje Dekker, and M