Andreas Riis

The Reverend
Andreas Riis
Andreas Riis
Born(1804-01-12)12 January 1804
Løgumkloster, Duchy of Schleswig
Died13 January 1854(1854-01-13) (aged 50)
Naksby near Grimstad, Sweden and Norway
NationalityDanish
EducationBasel Mission Seminary, Basel, Switzerland
Occupations
Spouses
  • Anna Margaretha Wolter
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    ​
    (m. 1836; died 1845)​
  • Hilleborg Pharo
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    (m. 1849)​
Children5
Parents
  • Andreas Petersen Riis (father)
  • Anna Maria F. Philipsen (mother)
ChurchBasel Evangelical Missionary Society
Orders
OrdinationLörrach, 1832
ConsecrationBasel Minster, 1832

Andreas Riis (12 January 1804[1] – 13 January 1854[2][3]) was a Danish minister and pioneer missionary who is widely regarded by historians as the founder of the Gold Coast branch of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society.[4][5][6][7][8][9] A resident of the Gold Coast from 1832 to 1845, Riis played a critical role in the recruitment of 24 West Indian missionaries from Jamaica and Antigua in 1843 to aid the work of the mission in formal education, agriculture and the propagation of the Gospel in colonial Ghana.[6][10][11][12][13] As the first Basel missionary in Akropong in 1835, he laid the groundwork for the first mission house, eventually resulting in the founding of the first Christian church there which later became the Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong.[14]

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  4. ^ Seth, Quartey. "Andreas Riis: a lifetime of colonial drama". Research Review of the Institute of African Studies. 21. Archived from the original on 17 April 2017.
  5. ^ Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast, 1832-1895. Cambria Press. ISBN 9781621968733. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018.
  6. ^ a b Sill, Ulrike (2010). Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood: The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana. BRILL. ISBN 978-9004188884. Archived from the original on 30 March 2017.
  7. ^ Miller, Jon (22 May 2014). Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917. Routledge. ISBN 9781136876189. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018.
  8. ^ Knispel, Martin and Kwakye, Nana Opare (2006). Pioneers of the Faith: Biographical Studies from Ghanaian Church History. Accra: Akuapem Presbytery Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  10. ^ Herppich, Birgit (31 October 2016). Pitfalls of Trained Incapacity: The Unintended Effects of Integral Missionary Training in the Basel Mission on its Early Work in Ghana (1828-1840). James Clarke Company, Limited. ISBN 9780227905883. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018.
  11. ^ Kwakye, Abraham Nana Opare (2018). "Returning African Christians in Mission to the Gold Coast". Studies in World Christianity. 24 (1). Edinburgh University Press: 25–45. doi:10.3366/swc.2018.0203.
  12. ^ Anquandah, James (2006). Ghana-Caribbean Relations – From Slavery Times to Present: Lecture to the Ghana-Caribbean Association. National Commission on Culture, Ghana:"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ Dawes, Mark (2003). "A Ghanaian church built by Jamaicans". Jamaican Gleaner. Archived from the original on 21 November 2017.
  14. ^ "History-Christ Presbyterian Church, Akropong". Archived from the original on 24 May 2013.