Author: JUNGHUHN, Franz Wilhelm.
Title: Licht- en schaduwbeelden uit de binnenlanden van Java. Over het karakter, de mate van beschaving, de zeden en gebruiken der Javanen; over de invoering van het Christendom op Java, het bezigen van vrijen arbeid en andere vragen van den dag. Verhalen en gesprekken der gebroeders Dag en Nacht; , verzameld op reizen door gebergten en bosschen, in de woningen van armen en rijken. 6e herziene en vermeerderde druk.
Description: Amsterdam, F. Günst, 1867. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With lithographed portrait. 377 pp. With bookplate of Jean Grand Jean Perrenod Comtesse. - Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864) was a co-founder of the Dutch freethinkers' association. He expounded his views in the anonymous publication of Images of Light and Shadow from Java's interior, first published in 1854. The book created a lot of bad feeling which impeded but could not prevent its appearance in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands Indies, the book was what we would now call a best seller. Junghuhn's book was prohibited in Austria and in several German states and principalities because of its alleged 'denigrations and vilifications of Christianity' (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.69). Cat. KITLV p.256; Buur 53; Tiele 573 (note).

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