Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
Politician
1894 – 1948
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Who was Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr?
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding Apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa. He came from a well-known Afrikaner family; his uncle, also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, but known affectionately as "Onze Jan" among fellow Afrikaners, was a famous figure in the Eerste Taalbeweging.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1894
Cape Town - Also known as
- Jan H. Hofmeyr
- Jan Hofmeyr
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- South Africa
- Profession
- Education
- Balliol College
- University of Cape Town
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Dec 3, 1948
Johannesburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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