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Author of publications on classical and NT Greek

First Professor of NT Greek at the University of Stellenbosch

Gerrit van Wyk Kruger was born on 11 June 1937 in the heart of Namaqualand.
1955: Matriculated at Martin Oosthuizen Hoërskool, Kakamas, in the first class, with Theo Pauw as Headmaster.
1958: B.A. cum laude, University of Stellenbosch, majoring in Greek and Hebrew, with Latin and Afrikaans as secondary subjects
1959: Entered the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church at Stellenbosch on its centenary year
1960: Won the Sir Henry Strakosch Memorial Scholarship for further study at the University of Cambridge
1961: BA Hons, cum laude, University of Stellenbosch
September 1961: Left Cape Town with the 'Pendennis Castle' for South Hampton, England
1961 -1964: Member of King's College, Cambridge, where he studied under the tuition of CDF Moule, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity (the oldest Chair at that university, where Erasmus of Rotterdam was the first reader in Greek)
1963: Married Christa de Wit in St. Columba's Presbyterian Church, Downing Street, Cambridge, and left on an extended tour of Europe, with Greece as final destination.
July 1964: Lecturer in Greek, University of Stellenbosch
1967: Received a Ph.D. in NT Greek at the University of Cambridge, with the thesis: Conditionals in the New Testament. A Study in their Rationale. (For a comprehensive evaluation thereof, 25 years later, see Stanley E. Porter, Verbal Aspect of the Greek of the NT (Studies in Biblical Greek, vol I), Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York, 1993, p.319ff).
1969: Senior Lecturer in Greek, University of Stellenbosch
1969 - 1973: Chief Examiner for Matriculation Greek in South Africa
25 July 1970: Birth of only son, André
1973: Is offered Professorships at the University of Port Elizabeth and at the University of the Orange Free State
1976: Appointed first Professor of NT Greek at the University of Stellenbosch
1986 Spent sabbatical, with family, on a Senior HSRC bursary at Cambridge, working on the ancient Greek Romance with Dr. Richard Hunter of Pembroke College, now Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge
1977 - 1985: Associate Member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns
1985: Supervisor of the first Doctorate Degree in NT Greek at the University of Stellenbosch
1985 - 1995: Appointed Moderator for Hellenistic Greek at the University of the Western Cape.
1994: Retired from the US
Since his retirement, Gerrit Kruger completed a dissertation on the phenomenon of religion with the provisional title, Who made God? The idea of God according to Plato's Metaphysics, applying, for the first time, Plato's Theory of Forms. He also has been working on a six volume compendium on the Greek and Latin Classics (in Afrikaans), intended to culminate with the coming of the European Renaissance.
From 1994 - 2000, he was correspondent in Die Burger responsible for up to 70 items on Afrikaans, politics, literature, and other polemica.
His 125 articles on the history of Stellenbosch written for Eikestadnuus, 1987 - 1993,
can be found in the archives of the Gericke Library, Africana Section, as well as his complete collection of Afrikaans literature of the 20th century, many of which are signed first editions.

pánta rheî kaî oudèn ménei
Alles vloei en konstant bly daar niks
(Herakleitos of Ephesos, 550-480 B.C.)

Published in a closed circulation by the Universiteits-Uitgewers en -Boekhandelaars, Stellenbosch/Grahamstown:
Die voor-Sokratiese natuurfilosowe, 1976
Aristophanes. Die Griekse Ou Komedie, 1977
Teorie en eksegese van die NT verbum, 1981
Die na-klassieke Griekse letterkunde, 1983
Die oud-Griekse roman, 1986
Plato, god van die filosowe, 1992
Die Evangeliegenre, 1992
Skrywers van die Nuwe Testament, Deel II, 1994

The Old Main Building is the oldest academic building of the University of Stellenbosch:
Inaugurated in November 1886
Architect: Carl Otto Hager

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