Wolter Louis Albert Collard

Best known today for De 'handel in blanke slavinnen' (1900), this Dutch writer was trained in law and approached his subject as a serious legal and social investigation. The book was published as a University of Amsterdam dissertation and examines the systems, laws, and international concerns surrounding the trafficking of women and girls.

Available records also identify him as a lawyer and jurist in the Netherlands, and Dutch reference sources note that he later served at the Court of Appeal in The Hague. That background helps explain the book's careful, document-based style: it reads less like polemic and more like an attempt to understand a difficult subject through law, policy, and evidence.

Although little biographical material seems to survive in widely available sources, his work remains of interest as a historical document from around 1900. For readers interested in legal history, social reform, or Dutch nonfiction, it offers a window into how one scholar of the period tried to make sense of a deeply troubling issue.