Maria Vlier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Vlier

Dutch schoolbook writer

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1828

Place of Birth: Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1908

Profession: writer, teacher

Nationality: Suriname

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Maria Vlier (19 March 1828 – 8 June 1908) was a Dutch Surinamese teacher who wrote the first history textbook focused on the history of Suriname.
Born into an intellectual family who descended from slaves, Vlier was educated in the Netherlands and returned to Suriname to teach.
Recognizing that students were being taught European history and had no knowledge of the history of their own homeland, she wrote the first textbook on the colony.
The book won a silver medal at the International Colonial and Export Exhibition of 1883 and was one of the three most-used textbooks in the Surinamese education system until 1945.