Fritz Ramseyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Ramseyer

Swiss missionary and builder

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1840

Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1914

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Friedrich Augustus Louis Ramseyer also Fritz Ramseyer (7 October 1840 – 6 August 1914) was a Swiss-born Basel missionary, who was captured by the Asante in 1869 in colonial Ghana, together with his wife Rosa Louise Ramseyer (née Bontemps), Basel mission technical staff, Johannes Kühne and French trader, Marie-Joseph Bonnat.
Ramseyer was later released in 1874 and pioneered the Christian mission in Kumasi and the rest of Asante.
Apart from his evangelism, Ramseyer was instrumental in the expansion of opportunities in the fields of education, artisan industry training, land acquisition for building design and manpower development in the Asante areas he lived and worked in.