Carl Christian Reindorf
Teaching and writing
### Teaching and writing

Reindorf taught as an assistant teacher of history at the [Basel Mission Seminary](/wiki/Presbyterian_College_of_Education%2C_Akropong "Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong") at [Akropong](/wiki/Akropong "Akropong") from November 1860 to April 1862\. Other courses at the seminary included [English](/wiki/English_language "English language"), [Biblical exegesis](/wiki/Biblical_exegesis "Biblical exegesis"), [theology](/wiki/Christian_theology "Christian theology"), [geography](/wiki/Geography "Geography") and [classical languages](/wiki/Classical_language "Classical language"). He was the [headmaster](/wiki/Head_teacher "Head teacher") of the all boys' middle boarding school, the *[Salem School](/wiki/Salem_School%2C_Osu "Salem School, Osu")* at [Osu](/wiki/Osu%2C_Accra "Osu, Accra") in 1873\. As principal, he mentored several students such as Christian Holm, Peter M. Anteson and William A. Quartey, who all became teachers and catechists of the Basel mission. Carl Reindorf taught literacy in the [Ga language](/wiki/Ga_language "Ga language") and composed church hymns in Ga in 1856 and 1857\. He established a boarding school at Mayera with a dozen Ga boys from Accra. He lived and worked in Mayera for a decade before returning to Christiansborg, Osu. In 1903, he was part of the committee at [Abokobi](/wiki/Abokobi "Abokobi") that revised the Ga Bible, including Ludwig Richter, Jakob Wilhelm Werz, Christian Kölle and Daniel Sabah (1854\-07\). The revision committee completed its work in 1912\.

He finished work on his notable book, *A History of the Gold Coast and Asante* in 1889\. This literary piece was originally written in the [Ga language](/wiki/Ga_language "Ga language"). The English translation of the book was published in [Basel](/wiki/Basel "Basel") in 1895\. The inspiration or impetus for his [magnum opus](/wiki/Masterpiece "Masterpiece") came from a strong sense of nationalism and the linguistic work that had been carried out on Twi oral traditions by the German philologist and fellow Basel missionary, [Johann Gottlieb Christaller](/wiki/Johann_Gottlieb_Christaller "Johann Gottlieb Christaller") (1827–1895\). Reindorf was also likely influenced by [Christian Jacob Protten](/wiki/Christian_Jacob_Protten "Christian Jacob Protten") (1715–1769\), a fellow Ga\-Danish mulatto or [Gold Coast Euro\-African](/wiki/Gold_Coast_Euro-Africans "Gold Coast Euro-Africans") and an 18th\-century Moravian missionary and educator in Christiansborg who wrote the first recorded grammatical pamphlet in the [Ga](/wiki/Ga_language "Ga language") and [Fante](/wiki/Fante_language "Fante language") languages, which was published in [Copenhagen](/wiki/Copenhagen "Copenhagen") in 1764\.


What are some implications of Carl Reindorf's linguistic work on Twi oral traditions?