Mikro

Christoffel Hermanus Kühn (1903–1968) was a South African writer and poet who published under the pseudonym "Mikro" in Afrikaans. Kühn was born at "Van Reenensplaas" in Williston district of the former Cape Colony (later province of South Africa).

He was at school in Robertson and Carnarvon and continued tertiary education at the Stellenbosch University where he completed a BSc degree in Agriculture. Kühn taught for a while at Kuilsrivier and Ritchie. the W.A. Hofmeyr Prize in 1956 for Die Porseleinkat and the in 1957 for Die Jongste Ruiter. He received the National Publishers Award in 1961.

His daughter, Cornelia Hilda Kühn, who writes under the pseudonym Corlia Fourie, was born in 1944.

Kühn died on 17 April 1968, in the town Somerset West, in the Western Cape.