author
Abraham Anthony Fokker
1862–1927
A Dutch scholar of language and translation, he moved between the worlds of Malay and Spanish with unusual range. His work includes practical language guides, a Spanish-Dutch dictionary, and studies of Malay that still catch the eye of readers interested in colonial-era linguistics.
3 Audiobooks
Heilige Banden: Roman
by Abraham Anthony Fokker
Om het recht der liefde
by Abraham Anthony Fokker
Maleisch-Nederlandsche Gesprekken
by Abraham Anthony Fokker
About the author
Born in Batavia on September 27, 1862, and later dying in The Hague on January 1, 1927, Abraham Anthony Fokker was a Dutch translator, lexicographer, civil servant, and language teacher. Sources consistently describe him as a specialist in both Malay and Spanish, an unusual combination that gave his writing a broad cultural reach.
His known works include Malay Phonetics (1895), practical Malay-Dutch conversation material, and a Spanish-Dutch dictionary published in the early 20th century. That mix of scholarship and everyday usefulness suggests a writer who cared not only about language as a subject of study, but also about helping people actually use it.
Fokker is remembered less as a celebrity author than as a working scholar whose books sat at the crossroads of language learning, translation, and colonial-era research. For listeners today, his name offers a glimpse into a period when dictionaries, phrasebooks, and phonetic studies were essential tools for crossing between languages and worlds.