Francis Lodowic Bartels

Francis Lodowic Bartels (13 March 1910 – 20 March 2010) was a Ghanaian diplomat and educationalist, who served as Ghana's ambassador to West Germany between 1970 and 1972.[1]

Francis Lodowic Bartels
Ambassador of Ghana to West Germany
In office
1 May 1970 – January 1972
Preceded byGeorge Eric Kwabla Doe
Succeeded byEric Kwamina Otoo
Personal details
Born(1910-03-13)13 March 1910
Cape Coast, Gold Coast
Died20 March 2010(2010-03-20) (aged 100)
Paris, France
RelationsJames Aggrey-Orleans (son-in-law)
ChildrenAgnes Aggrey-Orleans (daughter)

Biography

Francis Bartels was born in Cape Coast to the Rev. Charles Henry Bartels (1885–1938), a Methodist minister, and Agnes Mensah (1887–1940). He stems from a prominent Gold Coast Euro-African family from Elmina. Carel Hendrik Bartels was his great-great-grandfather. His daughter is the Ghanaian diplomat, Agnes Aggrey-Orleans.[2]

Bartels attended the Mfantsipim School between 1925 and 1928 and the Wesley College of Education, Kumasi between 1929 and 1931. A King Edward VII Scholarship allowed him to continue his studies at King's College London, where he graduated in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then returned to the Gold Coast to teach at the Mfantsipim School. Between 1946 and 1947, Bartels studied teaching at the University College London and subsequently taught at the Selly Oak Colleges in Birmingham. After he received a Master of Arts there, Bartels again returned to the Gold Coast, to become the first Euro-African President of the Mfantsipim School.[1]

In 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of Ghana.[3]

He died in Paris a week after his 100th birthday, as the result of a traffic accident.[1]

Publications
  • Mfantse nkasafua dwumadzi; a Fante grammar of function (1946)
  • The Beginning of Africanisation: the dawn of the missionary motive in Gold Coast education, Rev. Thomas Thompson, 1751–1951 (1951)
  • Philip Quaque, 1741–1816 (1955)
  • Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein, 1717–47 (1959)
  • The roots of Ghana Methodism (1965)
  • Akan indigenous education (1975)
  • Trends in Innovation: Basic Education in Africa (1981)
  • The Persistence of Paradox: Memoirs of F. L. Bartels (2003)
  • Journey out of the African maze: indigenous and higher education in tandem (2007)

References
  1. "Biography of Francis BARTELS". africansuccess.org. 21 March 2010. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. "James Kwegyir Aggrey-Orleans's Page". www.mytribute.life. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. "University of Ghana: Conferment of Honorary Degrees 2016" (PDF). University of Ghana. 23 March 2016. p. 18.
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