Regina Hesse

Regina Hesse
Regina Hesse, seated second from left, with her husband, Hermann Ludwig Rottmann, standing behind her, Christiansborg, c. 1860
Born1832 (1832)
Accra, Gold Coast
Died1898 (aged 65–66)
Basel, Switzerland
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Education
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Known for
SpouseHermann Ludwig Rottmann (m. 1857)
Children8
Parents
  • Herman Hesse (father)
  • Charlotte Lamiorakai (mother)
Relatives

Regina Hesse (1832–1898), also Rottmann, was a Euro-African schoolteacher in colonial Ghana.[1] As an educationist, she was one of first women exemplars on the Gold Coast to become a school administrator.[1] Hesse was trained by the Angolan-born Jamaican Moravian pioneer woman teacher, Catherine Mulgrave who set up three girls’ specialist boarding schools at Osu, Abokobi and Odumase and was active in the women's Christian ministry in Christiansborg, Accra.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ 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.