Carl Christian Reindorf
| Carl Christian Reindorf | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carl Christian Reindorf 9 October 1834 Accra, Gold Coast |
| Died | 13 July 1917 Accra, Gold Coast |
| Occupation | Reverend |
| Nationality | British Subject, |
| Ethnicity | Ga |
| Education | Basel Mission |
Carl Christian Reindorf (31 May 1834 – 1 July 1917)[1] was a Ghanaian historian and pastor who worked with the Basel Mission. He wrote The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti in the Ga language, considered a pioneering work.[2] The work was later translated into English and published 1895 in Switzerland.[1] He used written sources and oral tradition, interviewing more than 200 people in the course of assembling his history.[2]
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Biography
Reindorf was born in Prampram, Gold Coast,[1] the son of Carl Hackenburg Reindorf, who was of half-Danish heritage, and Anowah Cudjoe, who was an ethnic Ga from Dutch Accra.[1] He received his early education in mission schools at Osu.[3] On 13 October 1872 he was ordained a minister.[1]
He finished work on his notable work A History of the Gold Coast and Asante in 1889.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 L. H. Ofosu-Appiah, "Reindorf, Carl Christian", Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "DACB" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Paul Jenkins, "Reindorf, Carl Christian", Dictionary of African Christian Biography.
- ↑ Jenkins (1998), p. 139.
Works
- Carl Christian Reindorf, The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti (1895, 1966).
References
- Jenkins, Paul, The Recovery of the West African Past: African pastors and African history in the Nineteenth century; C.C. Reindorf & Samuel Johnson. Papers from an international seminar held in Basel, Switzerland, 25-28 October 1995 to celebrate the centenary of the publication of C.C. Reindorf's History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1998, ISBN 3-905141-70-1.
- Raymond Jenkins, "Gold Coast Historians and Their Pursuit of the Gold Coast Pasts, 1882-1918" (Ph.D. diss., University of Birmingham, 1985).
- Seth Quartey, Missionary Practices on the Gold Coast 1832-1895. Discourse, Gaze and Gender in the Basel Mission in Pre-colonial West Africa (Youngstown, New York: Cambria Press, 2007).
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