| Intro | Ghanaian pastor and historian |
| Was |
Historian Church historian Writer |
| From | Ghana |
| Type |
Academia Literature Religion Social science |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1 January 1834 |
| Death |
1 January 1917 (aged 83 years) |
Carl Christian Reindorf (31 May 1834 – 1 July 1917) was a Ghanaian historian and pastor who worked with the Basel Mission. He wrote The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti in the Ga language, considered a pioneering work. The work was later translated into English and published 1895 in Switzerland. He used written sources and oral tradition, interviewing more than 200 people in the course of assembling his history.
Biography
Reindorf was born in Prampram, Gold Coast, the son of Carl Hackenburg Reindorf, who was of half-Danish heritage, and Anowah Cudjoe, who was an ethnic Ga from Dutch Accra. He received his early education in mission schools at Osu. On 13 October 1872 he was ordained a minister.
He finished work on his notable work A History of the Gold Coast and Asante in 1889.
Works
- Carl Christian Reindorf, The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti (1895, 1966).