T.J. Haarhoff

HAARHOFF, Theodore Johannes (1892-1971) was a South African classicist and translator of classical literary works. A founder member and former honorary president of the Classical Association of South Africa (CASA). Received his training in Classics at the Universities of Berlin, Oxford and Amsterdam. he was Chair of Classics at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1922 until his retirement in 1975.

See: The Classics in South African Society - Past, Present and Future, transcription of an address by Richard Whitaker of the University of Cape Town, Chairman of CASA in 1997.