Christian Jakobus Protten

Christian Jakobus Protten
Also Known As:	"Uldrich"
Birthdate:	September 15, 1715 (54)
Birthplace:	Christiansborg, Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana
Death:	October 23, 1769 (54) Christiansborg, Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana
Immediate Family:	Son of Jacob Protten and NN Husband of Rebecca Protten Freundlich Father of Anna Maria Protten, dead as child Brother of Wilhelm / Friderich Protten and Anna Protten

Managed by:	Justin Swanstrom (taking a break)
Last Updated:	January 19, 2017

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Immediate Family

Rebecca Protten Freundlich

wife
Anna Maria Protten, dead as child

daughter
NN

mother
Jacob Protten

father
Wilhelm / Friderich Protten

brother
Anna Protten

sister
Anna Maria Freundlich

stepdaughter

About 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_dk.htm

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-present/lieberkuhn-samuel-SIM_13018>

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Christian Jakobus Protten's Timeline

1715	September 15, 1715	Birth of Christian Jakobus Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana
1750	1750 Age 34	Birth of Anna Maria Protten, dead as child Herrnhut, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
1769	October 23, 1769 Age 54	Death of Christian Jakobus at Christiansborg Accra, Accra Metropolis, Greater Accra, Ghana Protten was desperate to return to his home country of Ghana and Rebecca went with him. When he died, leaving Rebecca a widow for the second time but this time in a country she did not really call home, there was some discussion as to whether she should return to St. Thomas but it was felt that she was not well enough to travel and she died there in 1780 at the age of 62. (Rebecca’s Revival Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World author Jon F Sensbach)

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