Ton Elias (journalist)

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Anton "Ton" Elias (15 January 1921, Amsterdam – 28 October 1980, The Hague) was a Dutch journalist. He is best known as the first Dutch journalist to specialize in education.^[1]

Early life

Elias grew up in Amsterdam, where his father had a shoe store on Leidse Street. His mother died when he was three years old, and his father died when he was thirteen. He was taken in by his uncle and aunt, who lived in Hilversum.

In order to escape being pressed into

When De Tijd stopped being produced as a daily newspaper, Elias became the education editor for the NRC Handelsblad. At both papers he wrote a column called "Notebook" ("Cahier"), which was influential.^[5] Elias also wrote regularly about concentration camps, partly based on his own experiences at Buchenwald.

From 1950 to 1970, Elias wrote theater reviews for the Katholieke Illustratie.

In 1967, Elias was awarded the M. van Blankenstein Prize. In 1970 he was made a knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

He died on 28 October 1980.^[6]

Archive

In 1982, Elias's widow donated his papers to the Dutch Ministry of Education. His papers were then transferred to the National Education Museum in 1992.^[5]

Selected publications

• Van mammoet tot wet (Den Haag, 1963).
• Voortgezet onderwijs voor uw kind na de lagere school ('s-Gravenhage, [1966]).
• Na de lagere school? ('s-Gravenhage, 1967 and 1968).
• De eed in de kaatsbaan, alsnog (Utrecht, 1973). Reprinted in Elias (1982), p. 39-54.
• Onderwijsjournalistiek, een nieuw specialisme (Katholieke Onderwijs Vereniging, 1977).
• 'Onderwijsvernieuwing in Nederland', Ons Erfdeel 20 (1977).
• Dertig jaar onderwijs - zwart op wit. Een selectie uit de artikelen, commentaren en Cahiers van de onderwijsjournalist Ton Elias geschreven in de periode 1946 tot en met 1980. Selected by Jos Ahlers, Ton Elias jr., Jos van Kemenade and Patrick Spijkerman (Groningen, 1982). With pictures by Vincent Mentzel and illustrations by Jan Willem van Vugt.

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