Pieter Lodewijk Tak

Pieter Lodewijk Tak (Middelburg, 24 September 1848 – Domburg, 26 August 1907) was a Dutch journalist and politician.

[1] Tak was the son of a steward in Middelburg, where, after failing law school in 1878, he started writing foreign reviews for the Middelburgsche Courant.

He took over the financial management of the latter from Frank van der Goes, but left in 1895 to create an own magazine, De Kroniek.

In 1899 he became a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party ("Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij" / SDAP), and started working for Het Volk.

In 1905 Tak fired the journalist Jacob Israël de Haan after the publication of his novel Pijpelijntjes.