Reindorf, Carl Christian

LC control no.	no 96049650
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Reindorf, Carl Christian *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Ghana
Birth date	18340531
Death date	1917
Place of birth	Prampram (Ghana)
Place of death	Osu (Accra, Ghana)
Affiliation	Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel Catechist Seminary in Akuropon (Ghana)
Profession or occupation	Clergy Historians Plantation owners
Found in	The history of the Gold Coast and Asante, 1966: t.p. (Carl Christian Reindorf) LC database, 9/26/96 (hdg.: Reindorf, Carl Christian) NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Reindorf, Carl Christian, 1834-1917) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed arch 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reindorf, Carl Christian; clergy, historian, plantation owner; born 31 May 1834 in Prampram, Ghana; attended Danish school in Osu (1842) and was christened (1844); moved to the Basel Mission school (1946-1850); returned to the missionary school at Osu to train as a catechist (1852); reached full Catechist status (1855-1857); was assistant teacher at the Catechist Seminary in Akuropon (Akuapem) (1860); ordained as pastor of the Basel Mission, West African Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) (1872-1882); retired from his work in the Basel Mission Society and moved to his coffee plantation, Hebron (1893); lived in Osu (1907-1917); famous with his historical work, History of the Gold Coast and Asante, which was published in English, Basel, Switzerland (1895); died 1917 in Osu, Ghana)