{"id":241786,"date":"2013-01-02T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T10:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vo.hollands-spoor.com\/schrijvers\/samuel-butler\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:49:01","slug":"samuel-butler","status":"publish","type":"oorschot_writer","link":"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/samuel-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Butler (1835-1902) ontliep zijn voorbestemming tot dominee door naar Nieuw-Zeeland te vluchten en na vijf jaar schapenteelt terug te keren voor een verdere loopbaan als huiskamergeleerde, vertaler, criticus, romancier, essayist en kunstschilder. Tijdens zijn leven verwierf hij bekendheid met ontluisterende analyses van de christelijke ethiek, kanttekeningen bij Darwins evolutieleer, vertalingen van Homerus\u2019 werken en zijn roman <em>Erewhon<\/em>, een satirische aanklacht tegen de Victoriaanse maatschappij. Zijn postume, autobiografisch ge\u00efnspireerde familiekroniek <em>De weg van alle vlees<\/em> rekent onzachtzinnig af met de hypocrisie van de Anglicaanse kerk, en wordt tegenwoordig gezien als zijn beste fictiewerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Butler (1835-1902) ontliep zijn voorbestemming tot dominee door naar Nieuw-Zeeland te vluchten en na vijf jaar schapenteelt terug te keren voor een verdere loopbaan als huiskamergeleerde, vertaler, criticus, romancier, essayist en kunstschilder. Tijdens zijn leven verwierf hij bekendheid met ontluisterende analyses van de christelijke ethiek, kanttekeningen bij Darwins evolutieleer, vertalingen van Homerus\u2019 werken en&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/samuel-butler\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"read-more-arrow\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241787,"menu_order":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241786","oorschot_writer","type-oorschot_writer","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Samuel Butler &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanoorschot.nl\/en\/writers\/samuel-butler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samuel Butler &#183; Uitgeverij Van Oorschot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samuel Butler (1835-1902) ontliep zijn voorbestemming tot dominee door naar Nieuw-Zeeland te vluchten en na vijf jaar schapenteelt terug te keren voor een verdere loopbaan als huiskamergeleerde, vertaler, criticus, romancier, essayist en kunstschilder. 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