David Asante, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDavid Asante
Gold Coast linguist, educator and missionary
Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1834
Place of Birth: Akropong, Eastern Region, Ghana
Date of Death: 13-Oct-1892
Profession: missionary
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About David Asante
- 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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