David Asante

The Reverend

David Asante
The Reverend; David Asante
	David Asante
Born	23 December 1834; Akropong, Gold Coast
Died	13 October 1892 (aged 57); Akropong, Gold Coast
Nationality	British subject
Education	Basel Mission Seminary, Akropong; Basel Mission Seminary, Basel, Switzerland;
Occupations	Clergyman; Missionary; Philologist; Ethnolinguist; Translator;
Spouse	Lydia Martha Otuwa (m. 1864)
Children	11
Parent	Nana Owusu Akyem
Relatives	Nana Adum Tokori, Okuapehene (granduncle); Theophilus Opoku (cousin); Amoako Atta I (cousin);
Church	Basel Evangelical Missionary Society
Orders
Ordination	Basel Minster, 1862

David Asante (23 December 1834 – 13 October 1892) was a philologist, linguist, translator and the first Akan native missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society. He was the second African to be educated in Europe by the Basel Mission after the Americo-Liberian pastor, George Peter Thompson. Asante worked closely with the German missionary and philologist, Johann Gottlieb Christaller and fellow native linguists, Theophilus Opoku, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Staudt Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Twi language.

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