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T. J. (Theodore Johannes) Haarhoff
1892–1971
Best known as a South African classicist, translator, and writer, he helped bring Greek and Roman poetry into Afrikaans and spent decades building the study of classics in South Africa.
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Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire : A study of pagan and Christian education in the last century of the Western empire
by T. J. (Theodore Johannes) Haarhoff
About the author
Born in Paarl on April 30, 1892, Theodore Johannes "Theo" Haarhoff became an important South African man of letters whose work linked classical literature with Afrikaans writing. Sources consulted describe him as a writer, literary scholar, and translator who made a notable contribution through translations of ancient Greek and Roman poetry.
Haarhoff also had a long academic career in classics. An appreciation of his work notes that he held the Chair of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand for thirty-five years, and other reference material describes him as a founder member and later honorary president of the Classical Association of South Africa.
He died on August 30, 1971. Today he is remembered both for his scholarship and for helping make the classical world more accessible to Afrikaans readers.