Pieter Juriaan van der Heyde Schreuder attended the high school at Franschhoek, Western Cape, and passed the matriculation examination of the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1906. He continued his studies at Victoria College, Stellenbosch (forerunner of the University of Stellenbosch) and in 1911 was awarded the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in literature and science. He then proceeded to the United States to study further at Cornell University at Ithaca, New York State, which awarded him the degree Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1915. His thesis was entitled The Cape horse, its origin, breeding and development in the Union of South Africa.

Upon his return to South Africa Schreuder appears to have been employed in the Department of Agriculture, for during 1916-1917 he compiled notes on the production and export of beef. During the late nineteen-twenties he worked in South West Africa (now Namibia). With D.H. Thompson he wrote an article on 'Karakoel-skaapboerdery' (Karakul sheep farming) in the South West African Farmer (1928). The article was reprinted as a pamphlet by the Department of Agriculture of the territory (Windhoek, 1928, 14 pp). At this time Schreuder was a member of the South West Africa Scientific Society and served on its council for 1928/9. Back in South Africa twenty years later he and F.B. Wright wrote The horse on the farm (Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 293, 1948).

In 1920 Schreuder married Olive Claudine Bosscher.

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Google Scholar, at http://scholar.google.co.za Publication by P.J.v.d.H. Schreuder.

Journal of the South West Africa Scientific Society, 1928/9, Vol. 4: Council.

Logan, R.F. Bibliography of South West Africa, geography and related fields. Windhoek: SWA Scientific Society, 1969.

National Archives Repository (TAB), Source MHG, Vol. 0, Ref. 2477/50. Death notice, Pieter Juriaan van der Heyde Schreuder.

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS), at http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to Pieter Juriaan van der Heyde Schreuder.

Peters, B. Personal communication, 11 October 2021; with copies of archival documents.

South African bibliography to the year 1925. London: Mansell, 1979.

University of the Cape of Good Hope. Calendar, 1907/8 to 1917/8.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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