oa Een liberaal in de voetsporen van een oude Bataaf

The biography as instrument: patriotic ideals becoming moral positions. C.J. Wenckebach on the ‘murder’ of Leiden’s rector magnificus H.A. Schultens (1749-1793)

A liberal in the footprints of an old Batavian. Paul Strick van Linschoten’s travelogue (1818) and its translation/adaptation by ‘a statesman’ (1855-1856) In 1818, ex-patriot Paul Strick van Linschoten published a three-volume travelogue Vertraute Briefe während eines Durchflugs durch einen Theil der nördlichen Provinzen des Königreichs der Niederlande, in which he critically examined the state of affaires in the newly formed Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1855-1856, the book was re-edited and translated as Herinneringen van den baron Strick van Linschoten. Naar het Hoogduitsch bewerkt door een staatsman. The anonymous ‘statesman’ who was responsible for this edition, in which several remarkable changes can be found, adapted Strick’s observations to the current political upheaval.