Francis Lodowic Bartels

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Francis Lodowic Bartels (born March 13, 1910 in Cape Coast , † March 20, 2010 in Paris , France ) was a Ghanaian diplomat .

Career

After attending the Cape Coast Methodist Primary School (1915 to 1924), the Mfantsipim School (1925 to 1928) and the Wesley College of Education in Kumasi (1929 to 1931), Bartels received the King Edward VII Scholarship . He graduated from King's College London in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts and then returned to the Mfantsipim School as an employee. Bartels' teacher training at University College London (1946 to 1947) was followed by a position as a lecturer at the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham . After he was awarded the Master of Arts there , Bartels took over the management of the Mfantsipim School in October 1949 as the first black man; his students include Kofi Annan , Kwame Gyekye and Joseph WS deGraft-Johnson . In 1956 he was appointed Officer of the British Empire (OBE) by the head of state Elizabeth II . In July 1957 Bartels went to the United States, where he worked for the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP), among others . He then worked at UNESCO , first as an expert in teacher training (from April 1961), later as head of UNESCO's Africa department (from October 1963) and finally as advisor to the deputy director of education (from September 1967).

After Bartels had been a visiting professor at University College Nairobi since 1961 and at the University of the Pacific in California in 1968 , he took up a position as Senior Lecturer at University College Nairobi in December 1969 and at the same time finished his work at UNESCO in Paris. On May 1, 1970 Bartels was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana to the Federal Republic of Germany. With the military coup by Ignatius Kutu Acheampong in January 1972, the Ghanaian’s time as a diplomat in the German capital Bonn ended . A subsequent Ph.D. - Bartels did not finish his studies at the University of London , between 1973 and 1978 he taught English and phonetics at the University of Paris IV . In 1989 Bartels was awarded an honorary doctorate in law (LL.D.) by the University of Ghana .

Bartels worked among other things with Fante and other Akan languages and worked as a journalist and author. He was married and had five children. Bartels died a week after his 100th birthday in Paris as a result of a traffic accident.

Web links

Commons : Francis Lodowic Bartels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Ghana: Conferment of Honorary Degrees 2016. In: ug.edu.gh (March 23, 2016), p. 18.
  2. ↑ Africa Year Book and Who's Who 1977. Africa Journal Limited, p. 1081 ( Snippet ).
  3. ↑ Biography of Francis BARTELS. In: africansuccess.org (March 21, 2010).
predecessor Office successor
George Eric Kwabla Doe Ghanaian ambassador to Germany
1970–1972 		Eric Kwamina Otoo
personal data
SURNAME Bartels, Francis Lodowic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartels, Francis; Bartels, Francis L .; Bartels, FL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ghanaian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Coast
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2010
Place of death Paris , France