Actress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born

Date: 17 Mar 1890
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Actress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born

Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, when her parents, who were South African German immigrants, were on a visit to Germany. On returning to South Africa in 1912, she was appointed as teacher of elocution at the South African College of Music in Cape Town, the first person in South Africa with the requisite qualifications for such a post, while also teaching at the Good Hope Seminary, St Cyprian's School, the Wynberg Girls' High School and the Ellersley School for Girls. Shortly after Prof. W.H. Bell became principal of South African College of Music in 1912, he appointed Freund as head of the Department of Speech Training.

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01Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC.)

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