Jbm herzog biography of mahatma gandhi

James Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a German immigrant, Johann Barthold Hertzog, and Susanna Maria Jacoba Hamman.

The first school he attended was in Kimberley, where he developed a dislike for foreign diggers on the mines, especially those from Britain.

In 1881, together with his three brothers, he was sent to Stellenbosch for further education.

Here he developed an interest in politics and supported Transvaal's independence from Britain.

Jbm herzog biography of mahatma gandhi

In 1889 he obtained a B.A degree at the Victoria College, in England, and in August of the same year left for Holland to study Law at the University of Amsterdam. He had become disillusioned by the treatment of Afrikaners because of the British laws governing them and hoped he could change this by studying Law and not Theology as he had intended.

His 1892 doctoral thesis was