Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd

Wilhelm Bleek, born in Berlin on 8 March 1827, a doctor of linguistics of the University of Bonn, came to Natal in 1855 at the invitation of Bishop Colenso, then settled in Cape Town, where he was curator of the library donated by Sir George Grey. In 1870 he obtained permission to bring ǀxam prisoners from the Breakwater convict station to his home in Mowbray. He died on 17 August 1875. His sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, born on 7 November 1834 in Norbury, England, collected two thirds of the texts with him and continued alone; the first woman in the country to receive an honorary doctorate, in 1913, she died in Cape Town on 31 August 1914.

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• TaleSpecimens of Bushman FolkloreWilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd · 1911LiteraturePublic domain