Tolar by MMaxi

1820 born Eduard Douwes Dekker on 2nd March in the Korsjespoortsteeg in Amsterdam
1838 passage to the former Dutch East Indies on board of the trade ship whose captain was his own father
1839 arrival in Batavia on 4th January in Batavia
1840 appointment as clerk at the General Audi-tor's Office in January
1841-1845 working on the Losse bladen uit het dagboek van een oude man (= Loose pages from an old man's diary)
1842 conversion to Roman-Catholicism out of love for Caroli-ne Versteegh, though she never married him. Appointment as Controller second class in Natal
1843 working on the theatre play De Eerloze (= The dishonoured), which was later published as De bruid daarboven (= The bride up there) (1864)
1844 suspended in January because of a deficit in July 1843. Leaves for Batavia in September, where he spends some time in utmost poverty with his native love, Si Oepi Keteh
1845 temporary appointment as secretary to the assistant-resident at Krawang
1846 marries Tine (Everdina Huberta baroness of Wijnbergen) on 10th April. Appointment as clerk in the residential office at Poerworedjo (Java)
1848 appointment as secretary of the residence Menado (Celebes)
1851 appointment as assistant-resident of Ambon in October. Writes a long letter to his old friend Arie C. Kruseman, publisher
1852-1855 leave in Europe to recover from illness
1854 birth of his son Edu on 1st January
1856 appointment as assistant-resident of Lebak (Bantam, Java). Officially installed on 21st January. Charge against regent Karta Nata Negara on 24th February. Conflict with resident Brest van Kempen. Transfer to Ngawi on 23rd March. Resigns after governor-general Duymaer van Twist refuses to see him. Honourable discharge on 4th April
1857 leaves for Europe without wife and son. Birth of his daughter Nonnie on 1st June
1857-1860 roams Europe, visiting, among other countries, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Tine and the children return to Europe in 1859. Tine and Douwes Dekker meet up in Antwerp, after which Tine leaves for The Hague and Douwes Dekker for Brussels. There he writes Max Havelaar in Au Prince Belge, a small Brussels hotel
1860 publication of Max Havelaar of the koffiveilingen der Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij (= Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company) under the pseudonym Multatuli
1861 publication of Over vrijen arbeid in Nederlandsch Indië (= On Free Labour in the Dutch Indies), Wijs mij de plaats waar ik gezaaid heb (= Show me the place where I sowed) and Minnebrieven (= Love letters)
1862 loses court case against Jacob van Lennep, who failed to provide a timely financial account after the publication of Max Havelaar. First volume of Ideën (= Ideas)
1864 launches a fierce attack against the Dutch government at an interna-tional colonial congress in Amsterdam. Temporary stay in Germany with his mistress, Mimi Hamminck Schepel
1865 publication of the second volume of Ideën and of De zegen Gods door Waterloo (= God's blessing through Waterloo)
1867 Een en ander naar aanleiding van Bosscha's Pruisen en Nederland (= Some reflections in reply to Bosscha's 'Prussia and the Netherlands')
1870 Nog eens: Vrye arbeid in Nederlandsch Indië (= Once again: Free Labour in the Dutch Indies)
1871 Duizend-en-eenige hoofdstukken over specialiteiten (= Thousand and one chapters about specialties)
1871-1877 third to seventh volume of Ideën
1872 Millioenenstudiën (= Millionaire studies) and the theatre play Vorstenschool (= School for kings) as Idea 930 in the fourth volume of Ideën
1874 Tine dies in Venice
1875 marries Mimi (Maria Hamminck Schepel); first performance of Vorstenschool in Rotterdam
1877 decides to give up writing
1887 dies in Nieder-Ingelheim on 19th February; cremated in Gotha on 23rd February

P. M.M.

I think that for now we are not going to have snow until late this year,

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