Editing Wilhelm Bleek (section)

== Death ==
[[Image:Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827–1875) - grave in Wynberg Cemetery.jpg|thumb|300px|Wilhelm Bleek's grave, Wynberg Cemetery, Cape Town]]
Bleek died in Mowbray on 17 August 1875, aged 48, and was buried in [[Wynberg, Cape Town|Wynberg]] [[Anglican]] cemetery in Cape Town along with his two infant children, who had died before him. His all-important work recording the |Xam language and literature was continued and expanded by [[Lucy Lloyd]], fully supported by his wife Jemima. In his obituary in the South African Mail of 25 August 1875, he was lauded in the following terms: "As a comparative philologist he stood in the foremost rank, and as an investigator and authority on the [[South African languages]], he was without peer."