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Thomas Frederik Dreyer

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Birthplace: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
Death: May 08, 1783 (55)
Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Immediate Family:

Son of Johannes Augustus Dreyer, FKA Isaac d'Algue, SV/PROG 1 and Sara Dreyer, b1c4
Husband of Christina Dreyer
Father of Johannes Augustus Dreyer, b4c1; Johannes Frederik (Jan) Dreyer, b4c2; Sara Christina Munnik; Johanna Catharina Dreyer, b4c4 and Thomas Frederick Dreyer, b4c5
Brother of Johannes Frederik (Jan) Dreyer, b1; Johannes Augustus Dreyer, b2; Sara Dreyer, b3 SM; Andries (Daille) Dreyer and Anna Cornelia van Eerten

DvN: b4
Managed by: Hester Maria Christina Marx
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About Thomas Frederik Dreyer

Notas deur David Abraham Swanepoel

Een van verskeie kandidate( broers en ‘n pa) op wie se grond ‘n kennis van Sparrman [1] ‘n Viverra putorius (muishond) gevang het. Dit was naby Rondebosch.

Die leser mag vra wat is nou snaaks is aan die noem van ’n muishond. Destyds was die beskrywing van Afrika-organismes nog in sy kinderskoene, en baie daarvan is gedoen deur Sparrman en sy mede-Sweed, medegeleerde en goeie vriend Thunberg. Beide was ook studente van die vermaarde taksonoom Linnaeus. Sparrman en Thunberg was beide aan die Kaap in April 1772.

Dit maak mens ook trots hoe sommige Kaapse inwoners en boere as fasiliteerders optree en selfs bruikbare menings verskaf ter bevordering van die wetenskap – so ver vewyderd van die boslanster-beeld wat skrywers opgedis het. Sulke mense het bestaan, maar ons het balans nodig.

Bron:

1. Sparrman, Anders. 1785. Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope: Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World: But Chiefly Into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772 to 1776, Volume 1.

Inligting verskaf as Oop Toegang onderhewig aan lisensie CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Kwytskelding: geen verantwoordelikheid word aanvaar vir enige foutiewe of onakkurate inligting nie, hetsy aangehaal, herverpak of self geskryf. Terme soos Hottentotte en Caffres was destyds in gebruik.

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Thomas Frederik Dreyer's Timeline

1727
August 24, 1727
Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa
August 24, 1727
1764
July 15, 1764
Suid Afrika, Kaap
1765
September 1, 1765
Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
1768
1768
1772
1772
1775
September 28, 1775
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
1783
May 8, 1783
Age 55
Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa