L.I. Coertze

L.I. Coertze (19**-) was a Academic author and translator.

Born Lukas Ignatius Coertze,

He wrote his doctoral thesis on Trusts and trustees in the Roman-Dutch law in a work entitled Die trust in die Romeins-Hollandse reg (published by Universiteits-Uitgewers en -Boek-handelaars (Edms.) Beperk., Stellenbosch, in 1948). He went on to publish a number of other legal works, including the English-Afrikaans Legal Dictionary (with V.G. Hiemstra, Juta & Co., 1948), .

Contribution to South African theatre

He translated two Shakespeare plays into Afrikaans:

Hamlet (published as Hamlet, prins van Denemarke by the Stewart Printing Co. in Cape Town in 1945, with illustrations by Maud Sumner; first performed by a company brought together by André Huguenet and African Consolidated Theatres in 1947)

Macbeth (published by Stewart Printing Co., Cape Town, in 1948, with illustrations by Nerine Desmond; first performed 1950 by NTO).

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