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−	[[Dr A.N.E. Changuion~~]] (1803-1881) was a [[Dutch]] born educator, writer, politician, orator, journalist, cultural activist and main leader of the [[Dutch]] movement in South Africa. (Penname as journalist: [[A.N.E.C.]])~~	+	#REDIRECT[[A.N.E. Changuion]]
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−	~~== Biography ==~~
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−	Born Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion on 15 December 1803 in The Hague, but grew up at Offenbach am Main, learning German, English, French, Greek and Latin. He taught English and French in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and also while he studied Theology at the University of Leiden from 1828, obtaining the degree ''Philosophy Theoreticae Master et Litirarum Doctor Humaniorum'' (honoris causa).
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−	In 1831 he accepted a professorship in classical and modern languages, focusing on Dutch literature, at the [[South African Athenaeum]] (founded in 1829; later known as the [[South African College]],today known as the [[University of Cape Town]]). He remained this position until 1842, when he resigned for various reasons, including the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, to start his own "Institute" (1842-1860), a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]], ''inter alia'' training a large number of teacher over the years. He was also involved in, and later edited, the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'', which had been founded by would be his father-in-law, Dr. Abraham Faure, in 1824.
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−	~~In Cape Town he married miss M.E. Faure on 25 September 1832 and the couple had six sons and three daughters.~~
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−	In 1865 he left the Cape with his sister, Louise, his wife, and his two daughters. He became a teacher in Frankfurt and Aarau. In 1876 he settled in Lausanne, Switzerland, later moving to Lörrach, where he died on 14 October 1881.
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−	~~== His contribution to South African culture, theatre and performance ==~~
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−	~~Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher, linguist, journalist and orator.~~
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−	He was apparently an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of works on linguistic matters, notably ''De Nederduitsche Taal in Zuid-Afrika Hersteld'' (''The Dutch Language in South Africa Restored'' - 1844, second edition 1848), possibly his most renowned work, in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", as a branch of [[Dutch]], but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape. (See [[Kaaps]])
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−	Besides his influence as teacher and lecturer through the Athenaeum and his "Institute", he also used his position at the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'' (writing under the penname of [[A.N.E.C.]]) to promote cultural matters and introduced the first discussions of theatre in that journal.
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−	From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking and seems to have been a member of the Rederijkerskamer [[Aurora\|Aurora II]], for whom he apparently wrote a comic dialogue called, for performance in 1873.
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−	~~[JH/TH]~~
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−	~~== Sources ==~~
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Changuion~~
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−	Robert Ross. 1999. ''Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870: A Tragedy of Manners''. Cambridge University Press:. p. 59.[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=fZxE61D_3dQC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=A+N+E+Changuion+Cape+Town&source=bl&ots=rkOlwFshcY&sig=FWBDOQLY4A_NeaKRsAgRKg-TM2A&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK_6OZ-MTNAhVIKMAKHfz9DfAQ6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q=A%20N%20E%20Changuion%20Cape%20Town&f=false]
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−	~~[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 4, 49-50, 350-1~~
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−	~~Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]~~
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−	~~== Return to ==~~
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−	~~Return to [[ESAT Personalities C]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities\|South African Theatre Personalities]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[Main Page~~]]

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 Besides his influence as teacher and lecturer through the Athenaeum and his "Institute", he also used his position at the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'' (writing under the penname of [[A.N.E.C.]]) to promote cultural matters and introduced the first discussions of theatre in that journal.
-From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking.
+From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking and seems to have been a member of the Rederijkerskamer [[Aurora|Aurora II]], for whom he apparently  wrote a comic dialogue called, for performance in 1873.
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−	[[Dr A.N.E. Changuion]] (1803-1881) was a [[Dutch]] born educator, writer, politician, orator, journalist, cultural activist and main leader of the [[Dutch]] movement in South Africa.	+	[[Dr A.N.E. Changuion]] (1803-1881) was a [[Dutch]] born educator, writer, politician, orator, journalist, cultural activist and main leader of the [[Dutch]] movement in South Africa. (Penname as journalist: [[A.N.E.C.]])

	== Biography ==		== Biography ==

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 Born Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion on 15 December 1803 in The Hague, but grew up at Offenbach am Main, learning German, English, French, Greek and Latin. He taught English and French in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and also while he studied Theology at the University of Leiden from 1828, obtaining the degree  ''Philosophy Theoreticae Master et Litirarum Doctor Humaniorum'' (honoris causa).
-In 1831 he accepted a professorship in classical and modern languages, focusing on Dutch literature, at the [[South African Athenaeum]] (founded in 1829; later known as the [[South African College]],today known as the [[University of Cape Town]]). He remained this position until 1842, when he resigned for various reasons  and went back to Europe, finally settling in Lörrach, SwitzerlandSwitzerland, where he died on 14 October 1881.
+In 1831 he accepted a professorship in classical and modern languages, focusing on Dutch literature, at the [[South African Athenaeum]] (founded in 1829; later known as the [[South African College]],today known as the [[University of Cape Town]]). He remained this position until 1842, when he resigned for various reasons, including the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, to start his own "Institute" (1842-1860),  a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]], ''inter alia'' training a large number of teacher over the years. He was also involved in, and later edited, the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'', which had been founded by would be his father-in-law, Dr. Abraham Faure, in 1824.
-He was an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of linguistic works, notably his most renowned work, ''De Nederduitsche Taal in Zuid-Afrika Hersteld'' (''The Dutch Language in South Africa Restored'' - 1844, second edition 1848), in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", as a branch of [[Dutch]], but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of  what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape. (See [[Kaaps]])
+In Cape Town he married miss M.E. Faure on 25 September 1832 and the couple had six sons and three daughters.
-In Cape Town he married miss M.E. Faure, daughter of Dr. Abraham Faure and Susanna Smuts, on 25 September 1832 and the couple had six sons and three daughters.
+== His contribution to South African culture, theatre and performance ==
-== His contribution to South African theatre and performance ==
+Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher, linguist, journalist and orator.
-Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher and linguist and as orator. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he founded his own "Institute" (1842-1860),  a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]], itner aloia training a large number of teacher over the years. He also worked for, and later edited the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'', which had been founded by his father-in-law in 1824 - and introduced the first discussions of theatre in that journal.
+He was apparently an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of works on linguistic matters,  notably  ''De Nederduitsche Taal in Zuid-Afrika Hersteld'' (''The Dutch Language in South Africa Restored'' - 1844, second edition 1848), possibly his most renowned work, in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", as a branch of [[Dutch]], but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of  what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape. (See [[Kaaps]])
 From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking.

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 == His contribution to South African theatre and performance ==
-Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher and linguist and as orator. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he later founded his own "institute" (* name?), a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]]. He also worked for, and later edited the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]''.
+Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher and linguist and as orator. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he founded his own "Institute" (1842-1860),  a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]], itner aloia training a large number of teacher over the years. He also worked for, and later edited the journal the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]'', which had been founded by his father-in-law in 1824 - and introduced the first discussions of theatre in that journal.
 From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking.

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 In 1831 he accepted a professorship in classical and modern languages, focusing on Dutch literature, at the [[South African Athenaeum]] (founded in 1829; later known as the [[South African College]],today known as the [[University of Cape Town]]). He remained this position until 1842, when he resigned for various reasons  and went back to Europe, finally settling in Lörrach, SwitzerlandSwitzerland, where he died on 14 October 1881.
-He was an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of linguistic works, notably his most renowned work, De Nederduitsche Taal in Zuid-Afrika Hersteld'' (''The Dutch Language in South Africa Restored'' - 1844, second edition 1848), in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", as a branch of [[Dutch]], but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of  what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape.
+He was an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of linguistic works, notably his most renowned work, De Nederduitsche Taal in Zuid-Afrika Hersteld'' (''The Dutch Language in South Africa Restored'' - 1844, second edition 1848), in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", as a branch of [[Dutch]], but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of  what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape. (See [[Kaaps]])
 In Cape Town he married miss M.E. Faure, daughter of Dr. Abraham Faure and Susanna Smuts, on 25 September 1832 and the couple had six sons and three daughters.
 == His contribution to South African theatre and performance ==
 Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher and linguist and as orator. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he later founded his own "institute" (* name?), a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]]. He also worked for, and later edited the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]''.
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 == Sources ==
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Changuion
+Robert Ross. 1999. ''Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870: A Tragedy of Manners''. Cambridge University Press:. p. 59.[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=fZxE61D_3dQC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=A+N+E+Changuion+Cape+Town&source=bl&ots=rkOlwFshcY&sig=FWBDOQLY4A_NeaKRsAgRKg-TM2A&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK_6OZ-MTNAhVIKMAKHfz9DfAQ6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q=A%20N%20E%20Changuion%20Cape%20Town&f=false]
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 4, 49-50, 350-1
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 == Return to ==
-Return to [[ESAT Personalities  N]]
+Return to [[ESAT Personalities  C]]
 Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
 Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
 Return to [[Main Page]]

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−	~~In this position, he~~ played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he later founded his own ~~“institute”~~ (* name?), a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and Dutch. He also worked for, and later edited the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]''. From around 1850 onwards, he organised important Dutch-language cultural evenings to promote ~~recitations~~ and public speaking.	+	Changuion played an important role in the promotion of [[Dutch]] culture in the Cape during the first half of the 19th Century, both as teacher and linguist and as orator. Unhappy with the increasing anglicisation of the Athenaeum, he later founded his own "institute" (* name?), a centre for basic and more advanced study with boarding facilities, which operated in both English and [[Dutch]]. He also worked for, and later edited the ''[[Nederduitsche Zuid-Afrikaansch Tydschrift]]''.
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		+	From around 1850 onwards, he organised important [[Dutch]]-language cultural evenings to promote [[recitation]]s and public speaking.

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 == Biography ==
-Born Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion on 15 December 1803 in The Hague, but grew up at Offenbach am Main, learning German, English, French, Greek and Latin. He taught English and French in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and studied Theology at the University of Leiden from 1828 till he left for South Africa.
+Born Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion on 15 December 1803 in The Hague, but grew up at Offenbach am Main, learning German, English, French, Greek and Latin. He taught English and French in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and also while he studied Theology at the University of Leiden from 1828, obtaining the degree  ''Philosophy Theoreticae Master et Litirarum Doctor Humaniorum'' (honoris causa).
-In 1831 he accepted a professorship in classical and modern languages, focusing on Dutch literature, at the [[South African Athenaeum]] (founded in 1829; later known as the [[South African College]],today known as the [[University of Cape Town]]). At Leiden University, he held the title of Philosophy Theoreticae Master et Litirarum Doctor Humaniorum (honoris causa). At the South African Athenaeum he remained in this position until 1842 when he resigned for various reasons  and went back to Europe, finally settling in Lörrach, SwitzerlandSwitzerland, where he died on 14 October 1881.
+He was an excellent teacher and lecturer and authored and published the first school books in South Africa, as well as a number of linguistic works, notably his most renowned work, ''Dutch Language in South Africa'' (1844, second edition 1848), in which he not only identified the peculiarities of the "Afrikaner language" or "Cape Dutch", but specifically also identifying some charactersitics of  what he termed the "Kaapsch idiom" (or "Kaapsche idioom" in [[Dutch]]), which displayed language features unique to the Cape.
 In Cape Town he married miss M.E. Faure, daughter of Dr. Abraham Faure and Susanna Smuts, on 25 September 1832 and the couple had six sons and three daughters.