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Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (13 August 1873 – 15 July 1932), who wrote under the pen name 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 original South African national anthem, ''Die Stem van Suid-Afrika''. He was affectionately known as ''Sagmoedige Neelsie'' (Gentle Neelsie) or ''Kerneels''.
==Biography==
Langenhoven was born at Hoeko, Ladismith, in the then Cape Colony, and later moved to Oudtshoorn where he became its most famous resident. In 1897 he married the widow Lenie van Velden. They had one child, a daughter named Engela, who was born in 1901. By 1914 he became a member of parliament (first as member of The House of Assembly, and later as Senator) where he took the struggle to have Afrikaans officially recognised, to the next level. He was also a founding member of the Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger, and a Freemason.〔Cooper, A. A. 1986. ''The Freemasons of South Africa''. p178. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau〕〔(Grand Lodge of South Africa )〕
His most famous work is the original South African Anthem ''Die Stem'', which he wrote in 1918. Parts of this anthem have been incorporated into the current national anthem, used since the abolition of apartheid in 1994. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, in 1973 the South African Post Office issued a series of stamps (in 4-cent, 5-cent and 15-cent denominations).
Langenhoven's writing career spanned almost every genre, from poetry to ghost and alien stories. He also translated several works into Afrikaans, amongst these was the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He was instrumental in the movement for the acceptance of Afrikaans as a language, and for it to be taught as the first language in schools instead of Dutch. This culminated in the language officially being used in parliament in 1925, and by 1927 it was recognised as an official language of South Africa, together with English.
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