Francois Petrus 'Toon' van den Heever (1894–1956) was a Hertzog Prize-winning South African poet, a scholar of Roman-Dutch law, and from 1948 to 1956 a judge of the Appellate Division.
[1][2] Van den Heever was born near Heidelberg and obtained his BA degree at the Transvaal University College in 1916.
After university he taught Latin, Dutch and English for two years, after which he joined the Windhoek civil administration and also studied part-time for his LLB degree.
[3][1] Van den Heever published his debut collection of poems in 1919 and his second bundle only thirty years later.
[4] His published works include: This South African law related biographical article is a stub.