Jérôme Louis Heldring

Jérôme Louis Heldring (born 21 December 1917) was from 1968-1972 editor in chief of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (NRC), one of the forerunners of NRC Handelsblad, a Dutch daily newspaper. He is one of the most influential political commentators in the Netherlands. Since 1953 Heldring writes columns in NRC Handelsblad (or the NRC), and since 1960 his column is called Dezer Dagen ("Our Days"). His intellectual position is conservative^[1] and he is always concerned with the history of civilization; his intellectual outlook is skeptical, detached, precise.

Bibliography

• Heel ons fundament kraakt, en andere kanttekeningen, Van Oorschot, 2003 (Our whole foundation is cracking, and other marginal notes)
• De taal op zichzelf is niets, Veen, 1993 (Language as such is nothing)
• Een dilettant, Van Oorschot, 1989 (A dilettante)
• Andermans veren. Uit de citatenverzameling van J.L. Heldring, Balans, 1986 (Other's plume)
• Geschiedenis na 1945, Het Spectrum, 1985 (History after 1945)
• Ontspanning door Oostelijke en Westelijke bril, Atlantische Commissie, 1978 (Détente, seen through Eastern and Western glasses)
• Het verschil met anderen, Van Oorschot, 1975 (The difference with others)
• Spanning en ontspanning na Tsjechoslowakije, N.R.C., 1968 (Entente and détente after Csechoslavakija)
• Democratie in debat, Boom, 1964 (Debating democracy)

Secondary Literature

• De conservatieve uitdaging : de scepsis van J.L. Heldring, Prometheus, 2003 (The conservative challenge. The skepticism of J.L. Heldring)
• Dezer jaren : buitenlands beleid & internationale werkelijkheid : beschouwingen aangeboden aan J.L. Heldring bij diens afscheid als directeur van het Nederlands Genootschap voor Internationale Zaken, In den Toren, 1982 (One of those years. Foreign Policy and International Reality. Reflections presented to J.L. Heldring at the occasion of resigning his position as Director of the Netherlands Society for International Affairs - NIGZ)

Sources

• File J.L. Heldring in the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
• Archive J.L. Heldring (International Institute for Social History)
• Columns NRC Handelsblad by J.L. Heldring

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