

Christian Jakobus Protten (1715–1769), son of a Togolese mother and a Danish father, studied theology in Copenhagen from 1727 to 1735 and then accompanied Nicolaus von Zinzendorf to Herrnhut. He returned to Elmina in West Africa in 1737 as the first Moravian missionary (Bohemian and Moravian Brethren: II, 4). During a long stay in Germany (1740–1756), in 1746 he married Rebecca Freundlich (1718–1780), a former slave from the Caribbean.
manuscript: Diarium of/by Christian Jakob Protten Africanus (1715-1769)
http://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/thismonth/12_06%20Protten.pdf
http://www.dacb.org/stories/ghana/protten_cj.html
http://aner.svaner.com/Svane_om/Svane_DK/Famous_persons/Africanus_dk.htm
Debrunner 1967
1715 |
September 15, 1715
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Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana
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1750 |
1750
Age 34
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Herrnhut, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
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1769 |
October 23, 1769
Age 54
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Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana
Protten was desperate to return to his home country
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