C. Louis Leipoldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

C. Louis Leipoldt

South African poet

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1880

Place of Birth: Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1947

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Christian Frederik Louis Leipoldt, usually referred to as C.
Louis Leipoldt, ( 28 December 1880 – 12 April 1947) was a South African poet, dramatist, medical doctor, reporter and food expert.
Together with Jan F.
E.
Celliers and J.
D.
du Toit, he was one of the leading figures in the poetry of the Second Afrikaans Movement.
Apart from poetry, Leipoldt wrote novels, plays, stories, children's books, cookbooks and a travel diary.
He is numbered amongst the greatest of the Afrikaner poets and he was described by D.
J.
Opperman, himself a noted South African poet, as "our most versatile artist".