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Paul Kruger
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South African politician and President of the South African Republic (1825–1904)
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was a South African politician and general who served as State President of the South African Republic, also known as the Transvaal, from 1883 to 1900. Born in the Cape Colony on October 10, 1825, he was a citizen of the South African Republic. He spoke Afrikaans and English, with Dutch as his native language, and wrote in English.
Kruger died of pneumonia in Clarens on July 14, 1904. He was buried at Heroes' Acre. He had 17 children. His life and work have been described in sources including the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition and The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1840
- Died
- 1926
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Der kommentar zu Gai Institutiones in Autun
- Codex Justinianus
- Über Mommsens ausgabe des codex Theodosianus von Paul Krüger ...
- Hr. Mommsen [und hr. Paul Krüger legten] ...
- Codex Ivstinianvs
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Colesberg, South Africa
State President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900.
Known for
- Paul Krüger in Marseille, Köln und Amsterdam — Self1901
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,812x
- “Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 68,260x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 46,778x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,699x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
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Quotes
- “Indien de Lieve Heer ons helpen en zegenen wilde, en wij ons land terug zouden krygen, dat den het volk elk jaar daar zouden komen feestvieren, juist by dezelfde steenhoop, en den Heer onze geloften komen betalen. En deze steenhoop is de eeuwige getuie daarvan.”
- “If the Dear Lord would decide to help and bless us, and we would succeed in recovering our country, that the citizens would annually come to celebrate at this exact cairn, honouring our vow to the Lord. And this cairn serves as the eternal witness to it.”
- “Wy syn hier gekomen om feest te vieren en gy weet het. Ons en u doel is niets anders dan om meer en meer te doen verstaan den wil des Heeren en om ons te wyzen op zyne leiding, opdat de ouders aan hunne kinderen en kindskinderen tot in het verste nageslacht kunnen verhalen, wat God aan ons gedaan heeft.”
- “We have arrived here to celebrate as you are well aware. Our aim, as your aim, is no less than to acquire a deeper understanding of the will of the Lord, and to apprise ourselves of his guidance, in order that the parents may convey to their children and grandchildren, and thence to our most distant descendants, what God has bestowed on us.”
- “... I will bring a curse upon myself if our independence is violated by me, since God has guided us so visibly that the blindest heathen and most unbelieving creature had to admit that it was God's hand that gave us our independence.”
- “… they were willing to their ability, I testify, yes, beyond their ability.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈkry.(j)ər]; 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904) was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900. Nicknamed "Oom Paul" (Afrikaans for 'Uncle Paul'), he came to international prominence as the face of the Boer cause—that of the Transvaal and its neighbour the Orange Free State—against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. He has been called a personification of Afrikanerdom and admirers venerate him as a tragic folk hero.
Born near the eastern edge of the Cape Colony, Kruger took part in the Great Trek as a child during the late 1830s. He had almost no education apart from the Bible. A protégé of the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, he witnessed the signing of the Sand River Convention with Britain in 1852 and over the next decade played a prominent role in the forging of the South African Republic, leading its commandos and resolving disputes between the rival Boer leaders and factions. In 1863 he was elected Commandant-General, a post he held for a decade; he resigned soon after the election of President Thomas François Burgers.
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