Christian Jacob Protten

Christian Jacob Protten
Christian Jacob Protten
Born	15 September 1715; Christiansborg, Gold Coast
Died	24 August or 23 October 1769 (aged 53–54); Christiansborg, Gold Coast
Nationality	Danish subject
Education	Christiansborg Castle School; University of Copenhagen;
Occupations	Educator; Missionary; Ethnolinguist; Translator;
Known for	First grammatical treatise written in the Ga and Fante languages
Spouse	Rebecca Protten (m. 1746)
Children	Anna Maria Protten
Parents	Jacob Protten (father); Aafio Dedei (mother);
Relatives	Nii Ofori Ashangmo, Gã Maŋtsɛ, 1660–80 (grandfather)

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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