Christian Jakobus Protten

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_d...

Source

• Meyer, Dietrich. " Lieberkühn, Samuel." Religion Past and Present. Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and , Eberhard Jüngel. Brill Online , 2012. Reference. 24 May 2012 <http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/religion-past-and-pre...>

Debrunner 1967