Prof. Dr. J.H.J.A. Greyvenstein

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Full name: Prof. Dr. Jan Hendrik Jacobus Antonie Greyvenstein aka Vader Greyvenstein / Ou Vadertjie

Lifespan: 1878 Barkly East - 1967 [89]

Occupation: Academic in Theology

Prof. Greyvensteyn⁴

Timeline

Prof. Greyvenstein was an academic who served as the very first church lecturer and theological professor for the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk at the Transvaal University College (which later became the University of Pretoria).

He was the eldest son of Hendrik Greyvenstein (a sheep farmer) and Gertruida Smit. He interrupted his BA studies to fight as a Cape rebel for the Boer Republics in the Anglo-Boer War. He was captured in 1900 but completed his BA privately by 1902, and finished his local seminary training at the Victoria College (which later become the University of Stellenbosch) in 1905. He earned his doctorate from Utrecht University on 27 January 1911.

Greyvenstein front centre (1917).⁵

He did a short stint as minister in the Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) in Maitland and Sutherland, and then accepted a call by the Netherdutch Reformed Church (NH Kerk) in Pretoria. Greyvenstein was inducted as a minister in Pretoria on 3 May 1914, and appointed as the church's first full-time lecturer on 1 April 1917. He taught New Testament, Dogmatics, Church Law, and Christian Ethics. He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Theology multiple times.

In 1924 he established the Van der Hoff Teologiese Vereniging.

Greyvenstein (1928).

He married former teacher Ida Antonia Ruysch (or Ruisjsch) van Dugteren (1884 Netherlands - 1971) in 1915. She was the sister of Rev. C.L. Ruisjsch van Dugteren. In 1910 Ida established the Nederduitsch Hervormde Vrouevereniging. From 1944 until the late 1960s, she penned Gedachten naar Boven that appeared in Die Christelike Vrou magazine.

They initially lived in Klein Scheidingstraat 151 (the parsonage), then moved to 1003 Schoeman St, Pretoria in 1917, where they lived until 1967.

Sources
  1. Oberholzer, J.P. (2010) Die Klein Begin: 1916-1933. HTS Theological Studies Vol. 66, No. 3.
  2. Van Aarde, A.G. (2017) Theologia and the ideologia of language, nation and gender - Gateway to the future from a deconstructed past. HTS Theological Studies Vol. 73, No. 4.
  3. Van Aarde, A.G. (2017) Die eerste tree op weg na ’n kritiese en historiese Nuwe-Testamentiese wetenskap aan die Universiteit van Pretoria.
  4. Rex, H.M. (1968) Prof. Dr. J.H.J.A. Greyvenstein. Die Hervormer, Jan 1968.
  5. Van der Merwe, J.C. (1974) Van der Hoof self oor sy vyftig jaar. Die Hervormer, Mar, 1974.
  6. n.a. (1928) Die Teologiese Fakulteit van die T.U.K. De Hervormer, Aug 1928.

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