Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven

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South Africa, Writer
August 13, 1879July, 15, 1932.

Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (13 August 1873 – 15 July 1932), who published under his initials C.J. Langenhoven, was a South African poet who played a major role in the development of Afrikaans literature and cultural history. His poetry was one of the then young language's foremost promoters. He is best known to have written the words for the first national anthem of South Africa, "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika". He was affectionately known as Sagmoedige Neelsie or Kerneels.

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