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Dorothea Bleek
German anthropologist and philologist (1873–1948).
Born March 26th, 1873 in Cape Town.
Died June 28th, 1948 at 75 years old in Plumstead.
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon