Henri Roorda (Henri-Philippe-Benjamin Roorda van Eysing, 1870-1925) - Swiss writer and teacher. His father, Sikko Roorda, an official of the Dutch government in Indonesia, sympathized with many revolutionary figures, held anti-colonial views and even published the pamphlet “The Damnation”, which was followed by dismissal and a forced move with his family to Switzerland. In his youth, Henri Roorda met the anarchist theorists Elisée Reclus and Peter Kropotkin, who had a strong influence on him. After graduating from the University of Lausanne in 1892, he worked as a mathematics teacher, compiling pedagogical aids and textbooks. Inspired by the ideas of Rousseau and anti-authoritarian pedagogy, he influenced several generations of schoolchildren. Henri Roorda wrote a lot for anarchist and satirical magazines, often under the pseudonym Balthasar, composed several plays, but gained fame primarily thanks to his essays and essays, in particular such polemical ones works such as “My Sentimental Internationalism” (1915) and “The Teacher Doesn’t Like Children” (1917). On November 7, 1925, the writer committed suicide. In the same year, his text-testament “My Suicide” was published, in which the author ironically sets out the reasons that prompted him to take his own life. Almost a century later, Henri Roord’s thoughts remain still relevant. In 2011, the complete collection of his works was published in the collection “A Thousand and One Nights” by the French publishing house Faillard.