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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius

1819 - 1901

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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (17 September 1819 – 19 May 1901) was a South African political leader. An Afrikaner (or "Boer"), he helped establish the South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek or ZAR; also referred to as Transvaal), was the first president of the ZAR, and also compiled its constitution.He was born in Cape Colony, then accompanied his father, the Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius in the migration to the interior. After the death of his father in 1853, he was appointed to succeed him as Commandant-General of the Boer settlers around the city of Potchefstroom and moved from his farm, Kalkheuwel, near Broederstroom, to Potchefstroom. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius has received more than 189,106 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius is the 11,428th most popular politician (down from 9,210th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 45th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 11,428 out of 15,577Before him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Frits Bolkestein, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Fazıl Küçük, Sergius Paulus, and Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster. After him are Adlai Stevenson I, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, Henry Paulson, José Miguel Gómez, Raúl Leoni, and Leopold II, Prince of Lippe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 65Before him are Charles Kingsley, James Russell Lowell, Vatroslav Lisinski, Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, and Nicolae Bălcescu. After him are Abe Masahiro, Butrus al-Bustani, Pieter Bleeker, Martin Johnson Heade, Ernst Falkbeer, and Samuel Brannan. Among people deceased in 1901, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 50Before him are Cornelius Gurlitt, Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Arvid Posse, Aleksander Gierymski, Alfred Tysoe, and Wojciech Gerson. After him are Jacob Georg Agardh, Alexander Kovalevsky, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Edward John Eyre, and Frederic W. H. Myers.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 67 out of 374Before him are David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Abdullah Ibrahim (1934), Reggie Walker (1889), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), and Navi Pillay (1941). After him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), and Piet Retief (1780).

Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius ranks 23Before him are Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), Christiaan de Wet (1854), C. R. Swart (1894), Piet Joubert (1834), and J. B. M. Hertzog (1866). After him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Nico Diederichs (1903), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Oliver Tambo (1917), Walter Sisulu (1912), and Chris Hani (1942).