Christian Jacob Protten also Christian Jakobus Africanus Protten or Uldrich (15 September 1715 – 24 August or 23 October 1769) was a Euro-African Moravian missionary pioneer, linguist, translator and educationalist-administrator in Christiansborg on the Danish Gold Coast in the eighteenth century. The first recorded grammatical treatise in the Ga and Fante languages was written by Protten and published in Copenhagen in 1764.
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15 September 1715 Christiansborg, Gold Coast
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Died |
23 October 1769 (aged 54) Christiansborg, Gold Coast
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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