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'''Jan Reinder Leonard van Bruggen''' (1895-1948) was an [[Afrikaans]] poet, author, school teacher and university lecturer. His popular nickname was "Kleinjan" ("Little Jan"), probably because he was just under two metres tall, and he sometimes used "Kleinjan" as a pen name.
 
'''Jan Reinder Leonard van Bruggen''' (1895-1948) was an [[Afrikaans]] poet, author, school teacher and university lecturer. His popular nickname was "Kleinjan" ("Little Jan"), probably because he was just under two metres tall, and he sometimes used "Kleinjan" as a pen name.
  
He graduated in 1919 with a MA-degree in Dutch from the [[Transvaal University College]] (later the [[University of Pretoria]]) and in 1922 he got his doctorate in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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He graduated in 1919 with a MA-degree in Dutch from the [[Transvaal University College]] (later the [[University of Pretoria]]) and in 1922 he got his DPhil-degree in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  
  
 
See: ''[[Bakens: Gedramatiseerde mylpale uit die Groot Trek]]''
 
See: ''[[Bakens: Gedramatiseerde mylpale uit die Groot Trek]]''

Revision as of 07:48, 8 June 2016

Jan Reinder Leonard van Bruggen (1895-1948) was an Afrikaans poet, author, school teacher and university lecturer. His popular nickname was "Kleinjan" ("Little Jan"), probably because he was just under two metres tall, and he sometimes used "Kleinjan" as a pen name.

He graduated in 1919 with a MA-degree in Dutch from the Transvaal University College (later the University of Pretoria) and in 1922 he got his DPhil-degree in Amsterdam, Netherlands.


See: Bakens: Gedramatiseerde mylpale uit die Groot Trek