Carl Christian Reindorf
Carl Christian Reindorf (born May 31, 1834 , † July 1, 1917 ) was a Ghanaian pastor of the Basel Mission and writer.
Life
He was born into a family of merchants of the Ga people in Accra from a mixed marriage with a Danish officer and merchant. After training at the Basel Mission in Ghana, he first became a teacher and then a pastor of the Basel Mission in Ghana .
His main work is to have been the first African to write a history of an African region based on Western standards. There is a certain reference to the works of another pastor from this time, namely Johann Gottlieb Christaller . Christaller also worked to fix the oral traditions.
Reindorf's method consisted of interviewing 200 men and women in order to write down the history of these people. Like other writers who ventured into the field of oral tradition, which was unusual for their time, Reindorf received very little recognition for his work.
Fonts
- The History of the Gold Coast and Asante (1895, 1966)
literature
- Raymond Jenkins, "Gold Coast Historians and Their Pursuit of the Gold Coast Pasts, 1882-1918" (Ph.D. diss., Univ. Of Birmingham, 1985) * CD Reindorf, Remembering Rev. Carl Reindorf (1984)
See also
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reindorf, Carl Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian pastor of the Basel Mission and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1834 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1917 |