Antoine Changuion

Due to the financial problems of Antoine 's parents, François Daniël Changuion (politician, diplomat, including the first Dutch ambassador in the US, and elevated to the Dutch nobility in 1815 for his role as secretary of the provisional government, the Triumvirate of 1813 under Van Hogendorp[4]) and Henriëtta Wilhelmina Hartingh (daughter of a prominent Leidener, son and namesake of governor Nicolaas Hartingh, and Louise Ernestine Meyners) they left public life and in 1820 moved to Germany and for the next 30 years lived in Offenbach am Main, where Antoine at an early age came to learn and admire the German language and its literature.

At Leiden University, he held the title of Philosophy Theoreticae Master et Litirarum Doctor Humaniorum (honoris causa).

He had a healthy and reasonable zeal for the cause of teaching linguistics and languages to Dutch speakers in South Africa and elsewhere in the world.

His patient, kind, and warm nature allowed him to achieve great success in educating children specifically.

Lima was highly indignant and wrote that Changuion's examples were flawed and were not representative of the upper classes of South Africa.

[6] Later African linguists used precisely the Kaapsch idiom test that Changuion used to indicate that English was developing across South Africa.