Albert Helman

Lodewijk Lichtveld, who signed Albert Helman, was born on 7 November 1903 in Paramaribo, into the coloured elite, partly of Carib descent. Sent at twelve to the minor seminary of Rolduc, he came back to study music and was an organist. Settled in the Netherlands in 1922, he was a schoolteacher, a music critic and the editor of a magazine for young Catholics. He lived in Spain from 1932, on the Republican side, then joined the resistance. Minister of Education and Health of Suriname in 1949, he later presided over the Court of Audit. He died in Amsterdam on 10 July 1996.

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• NovelZuid-Zuid-WestAlbert Helman · 1926not translated into EnglishLiterature