Jan F.E. Celliers - Revision history

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 Though a brilliant and highly successful and influential poet and author, he was not exceptionally successful as playwright. However, like most of the authors of his time, he wrote to create and supply the new [[Afrikaans]] literature with a canon of serious works in all genres.
-His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and  ''[[Reg bo reg, of Die doel heilig die middele]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922).
+His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and  ''[[Reg bo reg, of Die doel heilig die middele]]'' (("Right above/before right, or the aim/cause justifies the means"- 1922).
 In 1893 he also recited a dramatic piece called ''[[Jan Onverschillig]]'' ("Careless John") at a meeting of the [[Rederykerskamer]] [[Onze Taal]], in Pretoria.

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 Though a brilliant and highly successful and influential poet and author, he was not exceptionally successful as playwright. However, like most of the authors of his time, he wrote to create and supply the new [[Afrikaans]] literature with a canon of serious works in all genres.
-His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and  ''[[Reg bo Reg]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922).
+His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and  ''[[Reg bo reg, of Die doel heilig die middele]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922).
 In 1893 he also recited a dramatic piece called ''[[Jan Onverschillig]]'' ("Careless John") at a meeting of the [[Rederykerskamer]] [[Onze Taal]], in Pretoria.

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 Though a brilliant and highly successful and influential poet and author, he was not exceptionally successful as playwright. However, like most of the authors of his time, he wrote to create and supply the new [[Afrikaans]] literature with a canon of serious works in all genres.
-His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924),  ''[[Reg bo Reg]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922), Te laat is ’n sketsmatige drama wat in 1911 in Die Brandwag verskyn maar nie apart gepubliseer word nie..
+His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924) and  ''[[Reg bo Reg]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922).
 In 1893 he also recited a dramatic piece called ''[[Jan Onverschillig]]'' ("Careless John") at a meeting of the [[Rederykerskamer]] [[Onze Taal]], in Pretoria.

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 Though a brilliant and highly successful and influential poet and author, he was not exceptionally successful as playwright. However, like most of the authors of his time, he wrote to create and supply the new [[Afrikaans]] literature with a canon of serious works in all genres.
-His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' (1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924),  ''[[Reg bo Reg]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922), Te laat is ’n sketsmatige drama wat in 1911 in Die Brandwag verskyn maar nie apart gepubliseer word nie..
+His plays include ''[[Liefde en Plig]]'' (“Love and Duty”- 1909), ''[[Te Laat]]'' ("Too late", 1911), ''[[Martje]]'' (1911), ''[[Heldinne van die Oorlog]]'' (“Heroines of the War” – a commissioned work for the inauguration of the Women’s Monument in Bloemfontein in 1913, pub. 1924),  ''[[Reg bo Reg]]'' (“Right above [before] Right”- 1922), Te laat is ’n sketsmatige drama wat in 1911 in Die Brandwag verskyn maar nie apart gepubliseer word nie..
 In 1893 he also recited a dramatic piece called ''[[Jan Onverschillig]]'' ("Careless John") at a meeting of the [[Rederykerskamer]] [[Onze Taal]], in Pretoria.

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 In 1874 the family moved to Pretoria, where his father had founded ''[[De Volkstem]]'' in 1873. Here he first continued his schooling at an English school, before attending a [[Dutch]] school, Meneer Dely se skool op Kerkplein. This institution was closed down in 1877 when England annexed Pretoria.
-Celliers now spent one year working at his father's newspaper, before he went back to the Cape to attend school in Stellenbosch and Wellington.
+Celliers now spent one year working at his father's newspaper, before he went back to the Cape to attend school at the Gimnasium in Stellenbosch (1879 tot 1881) and the Jongenskool in Wellington (1881–1882), before returning to Pretoria in 1883, to attend the school run by meester Wessel Louis, completing his matriculation in 1887.
-He initially worked as a surveyor for a year, before joining the Department of Education and in 1984 being appointed State Librarian for the Transvaal Republic (1894-1899).
+In 1887 he left for the netherlands to study at the Polytechnische Skool in Delft and alter the University of leiden, where he studied  under professors Van de Sande Bakhuizen en Schols.
-When the second [[Boer War]] broke out, Celliers fought on the Boer side near Colesberg, staying on to the bitter end. He then managed to slip through the enemy lines dressed in clothes of his wife and moved to Europe  with his family, where he studied Literature.
+He initially worked as a surveyor for a year, before joining the Department of Education and in 1984 being appointed State Librarian for the Transvaal Republic (1894-1899).
 He returned to South Africa in 1907, to work for the Department of Home affairs, doing translations. It is in this period that he began writing poetry, stories, essays, drama and literary reviews, works often dealing with the devastation of the war. He is specifically considered one of three most outstanding [[Afrikaans]]-language poets to emerge just after the [[Second Boer War]]. The other two were [[Totius]] and [[C. Louis Leipoldt]]. His best poems appear in the 1908 collection ''Die Vlakte en ander gedigte'' ("The Plain and Other Poems").
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 In  1919 the [[University of Stellenbosch]] offered him the post of extraordinary professor in 1919, a post he held till his retirement in 1929.
-He then moved to Cape Town for a time and eventually died in Johannesburg on 1 June 1940 .
+He then moved to Cape Town for a time, then to Harrismith in the Orange Free State. He died in Johannesburg on 1 June 1940 .
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 [[Jan F.E. Celliers]] (1865-1940) was an [[Afrikaans]] author and playwright.
-Not to be confused with his father, [[Jan F. Celliers]]. His surname is on occasion wrongly spelled as  [[Jan F.E. Cilliers]] by some sources.
+Often referred to simply as [[Jan Celliers]], but not to be confused with his father, [[Jan F. Celliers]]. His surname is on occasion wrongly spelled as  [[Jan F.E. Cilliers]] by some sources.
 == Biography ==