Christian Jacob Protten

Christian Jacob Protten
Born(1715-09-15)15 September 1715
Christiansborg, Gold Coast
Died24 August or 23 October 1769 (aged 53–54)
Christiansborg, Gold Coast
NationalityDanish subject
Education
Occupations
Known forFirst grammatical treatise written in the Ga and Fante languages
SpouseRebecca Protten (m. 1746)
ChildrenAnna Maria Protten
Parents
  • Jacob Protten (father)
  • Aafio Dedei (mother)
RelativesNii Ofori Ashangmo, Gã Maŋtsɛ, 1660–80 (grandfather)

Christian Jacob Protten also Christian Jakobus Africanus Protten or Uldrich (15 September 1715 – 24 August or 23 October 1769) was a Euro-African Moravian missionary pioneer, linguist, translator and educationalist-administrator in Christiansborg on the Danish Gold Coast in the eighteenth century.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The first recorded grammatical treatise in the Ga and Fante languages was written by Protten and published in Copenhagen in 1764.[4][9][10][11]

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  8. ^ Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 550. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
  9. ^ Debrunner, Hans Werner (1954). H. W. Debrunner. "Anfaenge Evangelischer Missionarbeit auf der Goldkueste bis 1828," Evangelisches Missions Magazin. Basel.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Steiner, P. (1888). Ein Blatt aus der Geschichte der Brudermission.
  11. ^ Protten, Christian Jacob (1764). En nyttig Grammaticalsk Indledelse til Tvende hidintil gandske ubekiendte Sprog, Fanteisk og Acraisk. Copenhagen.