Louis C. de Villiers
| Louis C. de Villiers | ||
 de Villiers (4th from right)
and team-mate of Freiburg FC as German champion in 1907 |
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| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| birthday | February 23, 1882 | |
| place of birth | Wellington , South Africa | |
| date of death | October 9, 1958 | |
| Place of death | Pretoria , South Africa | |
| position | Defense | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Freiburg FC | ||
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Louis C. de Villiers (Louis Celliers de Villiers, born February 23, 1882 in Wellington , † October 9, 1958 in Pretoria ) was a South African football player .
Career
Louis C. was born in Cape Town , the second of four children to Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers (1850-1887) and Sara Susanna Celliers (1850-1892) . His parents died early and he was eventually adopted by his uncle Japie Celliers. In 1897 he accompanied his uncle to the United Kingdom and finished school in Edinburgh .
He then went to Freiberg (Saxony), where he qualified as a mining surveyor in 1904 and a year later as a mining engineer . He moved to the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg i. Br. , Where he received his doctorate in geology in November 1907.
De Villiers joined the Freiburg FC , for which he played point games in the championship organized by the Association of South German Football Associations in the regional top division, in the Upper Rhine district , one of three districts in the southern district. From this emerged victorious with his team, he also took part in the subsequent final round of the South District , which was also won and entitled to participate in the final round of the South German Championship . After the first and second leg of the semi-finals against 1. Hanauer FC 1893 were won 1-0 on April 14 and 21, 1907, Freiburg FC reached the final. When 1. FC Nuremberg , the winner of the Ostkreises that by walkover 1 draw achieved, the return leg on May 5 with 3: moved into the final, a 1 on April 28 was 1.
As a participant in the final round of the German Championship , he played the semi-final against VfB Leipzig, won 3: 2 in Nuremberg on May 12, and the final against BTuFC Viktoria 89, won 3: 1 in Mannheim on May 19 .
At the end of 1907, De Villiers returned to South Africa , where he worked at the university and in 1920 became the first professor of geology at the University of Pretoria and held this position until his retirement in 1947. He collected a number of rocks, fossils etc. and in his honor the collection was converted into a museum with his name. Likewise, the sport accompanied him throughout his life and supported rugby and other sports at the University of Pretoria, so that the university stadium was named after him.
Louis Celliers de Villiars died in Pretoria on October 9, 1958 .
family
LC de Villiars married Agnis Therese Wilhelmina Justicia Antonia van Kessel Marais Scholtz on June 26, 1915 and had a son, Louis Scholtz de Villiers (1923-2004).
successes
- German champion 1907
- South German master 1907
- Southern District Master 1907
- Gaumeister Upper Rhine 1907
Awards / honors
- LC de Villiers collection of fossils, rocks, minerals etc. bears his name in his honor: LC de Villiers Museum
- The University Stadium of Pretoria bears his name in his honor: LC de Villiers Oval
Web links
- Louis C. de Villiers in the database of weltfussball.de
- short biography. S 2 A 3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b de Villiers, CC; Pama, C .: Geslagsregister van die ou Kaapse families . Balkema, 1966 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Ancestry.com: Scotland Census, 1901
- ↑ Title of the dissertation "Geological investigations in the area of Eptingen and Läufelfingen"
- ↑ Ancestry.com: crossing from Liverpool (England) to Cape Town (South Africa)
- ^ Ancestry.com: Agnis Therese Wilhelmina Justicia Antonia van Kessel Marais Scholtz
- ^ Ancestry.com: Louis Scholtz de Villiers
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villiers, Louis C. de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellington |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 1958 |
| Place of death | Pretoria |