LC control no. | n 88628390 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Capitein, J. E. J. (Jacobus Elisa Joannes), 1717-1747 |
Variant(s) | Capitein, Jacobus Elisa Joannes, 1717-1747 |
Associated country | Ghana |
Associated place | Netherlands |
Birth date | 17170622 |
Death date | 17470701 |
Place of birth | Elmina (Ghana) |
Place of death | Ghana |
Affiliation | Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden Protestantse Kerk in Nederland West-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) |
Profession or occupation | Priests, Black |
Found in | nuc88-44851: Trutenau, H.M.J. Christian Protten's 1764 Introduction ... 1971 (hdg. on MBU rept.: Capitein, Jacobus Elisa Joannes, 1717-1747; usage: J.E.J. Capitein) Prah, K. Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747, 1989: t.p. (Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717-1747) p. 37 (b. 22 June 1717, in Fantiland in present-day Ghana) p. 52 (d. 1 Feb. 1747) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 17, 2014: (Jacobus Elisa Joannes Capitein; Capitein, J.E.J; protestant minister; born perhaps in Elmina on the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana); sold to slavery at the age of eight; his owner took him to The Hague, Netherlands in 1728; learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and biblical Aramaic; baptized in 1735; won a scholarship to study theology at the University of Leiden in 1737; ordained upon his graduation in 1742 and appointed chaplain to the European community in Elmina; died 01 July 1747 in Ghana) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 12, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Capitein, Jacobus Elisa; Jacobus Capitein; Jacobus Elisa Joannes Capitein; slave, missionary, christian clergyperson; born c.1717 in Elmina, Ghana; sold into slavery at the age of eight; his owner took him to the Netherlands (1728); studied theology at the University of Leiden (1737); learned Dutch, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and biblical Aramaic; was baptized in 1735; became a Protestant minister; ordained and appointed chaplain to the European community in Elmina (1742); worked for West India Company; died 01 July 1747 in Ghana) |
Associated language | lat |