# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johann-gottlieb-christaller
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:16:30.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johann-gottlieb-christaller"
name: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
slug: "johann-gottlieb-christaller"
description: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller was a German missionary, clergyman, ethnolinguist, translator and philologist who served with the Basel Mission. He was devoted to the study of the Twi language in what was then the Gold Coast, now Ghana. He was instrumental, together with African colleagues, Akan linguists, David Asante, Theophilus Opoku, Jonathan Palmer Bekoe, and Paul Keteku in the translation of the Bible into the Akuapem dialect of Twi. Christaller was also the first editor of the Christian Messenger, the official news publication of the Basel Mission, serving from 1883 to 1895. He is recognised in some circles as the \"founder of scientific linguistic research in West Africa\"."
tagline: "German missionary (1827-1895)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christaller_1.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1827-11-19"
deathDate: "1895-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             16.66666666666666
  historical:           5.941649333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B1"
    title: "Кристаллер, Готлиб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوهان جوتليب كريستلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller"
    title: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller"
    title: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller"
    title: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller"
    title: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller"
    title: "Johann Gottlieb Christaller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96931"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump