John Robert Wahl

John Robert Wahl (19**-19**) was an academic and lecturer,

More generally known as J.R. Wahl or Robert Wahl

Biography

A descendent of the 1820 Settlers, he was born in **, the son of a well known Cape Town teacher,

He studied at Rhodes University and at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He also spent time at Harvard University. Over the years he built up a substantial international reputation as a specialist on the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti[1], with the publication of the book Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965-67), which he had edited with Oswald Doughty.

Wahl became a lecturer in English at Rhodes University and later professor and much admired head of the English Department at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein, where he and his wife inspired numerous scholars, researchers and authors over the years they spent there.

He married Joan Cicely Haworth, the daughter of Professor Haworth of Rhodes University, in the Anglican Cathedral of St Andrew and St May, Grahamstown, on 2 July, 1955. She too would became an English lecturer in Grahamstown and Bloemfontein.

Tragically Wahl died by his own hand in Bloemfontein in 1969/70.

Contribution to theatre, film, media and performance

Generally known as Robert Wahl,

Sources

https://www.1820settlers.com/genealogy/settlerbrowsemarrs.php?name=WAHL&first=

Most widely held works by John Robert Wahl, WorldCat[2]

Michael Green. 2004. Around and about: Memoirs of a South African Newspaperman. New Africa Books, 2004 [3]