Victor Ido

Victor Ido (8 February 1869, in Surabaya – 20 May 1948, in The Hague) is the main alias of the <a href="/facts/Indo_people/ldWd6lHY">Indo (Eurasian)</a> Dutch language writer and journalist Hans van de Wall. Born in <a href="/facts/Surabaya/ueSxkgv9">Surabaya</a>, <a href="/facts/Dutch_East_Indies/1vl6kw8p">Dutch East Indies</a> (colonial Indonesia) from a Dutch father and <a href="/facts/Indo_people/ldWd6lHY">Indo (Eurasian)</a> mother. Ido was the Art Editor of <a href="/facts/P.A.Daum/eyP9U8pA">P.A.Daum</a>'s <a href="/facts/Bataviaasch_Nieuwsblad/UEFLUhRq">Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad</a> and later the Chief Editor of newspaper Batavia's Handelsblad as well as an accomplished musician (organist).
As a literary author his work shows a keen eye for the discrimination and socio-economic realities of middle and lower class <a href="/facts/Indos_in_the_Dutch_East_Indies/ldWd6lHY">Indo-Europeans of the late 19th century</a>.
As an innovative and successful playwright he incorporated many indigenous i.e. Indonesian cultural elements into a western theatrical format.

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