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 Prfe-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti[1], publishing a book on him.

Back home 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 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]