page_title: Fritz Ramseyer
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Fritz Ramseyer / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Nähschule auf der Veranda bei Frau Ramseyer in Kumase.. Carte postale ancienne, sans indication d'auteur, d'éditeur ou de date. Collection particulière
context_page_description: Friedrich Augustus Louis Ramseyer also Fritz Ramseyer was a Swiss-born Basel missionary, who was captured by the Asante in 1869 in colonial Ghana, together with his wife Rosa Louise Ramseyer, 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.
context_section_description: On 8 February 1866, Fritz Ramseyer married Rosa Louise Bontemps at Christiansborg, Gold Coast.  She was born on 7 July 1841 to Henri Louis François Bontemps. Rosa Ramseyer, was a native of Valangin in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and had trained in both England and Basel to become a missionary. In the autumn of 1868, Rosa Ramseyer gave birth to Fritz Junior, affectionately called “Fritzchen”. During their time in Kumasi, Rosa Ramseyer gave birth to twins, one of whom died. Overall, they had eight children but four died in childhood. Records indicate that two his children were named Rose Ramseyer and Rudolf J. Ramseyer. As a result of her ordeal in captivity, Rosa Ramseyer became partially paralysed and her health condition deteriorated over time, permanently leaving the Gold Coast in 1904. Rosa Ramseyer eventually died in Switzerland in 1906. Fritz Ramseyer re-married in 1908 to a fifty-nine year old Swiss woman called Elisa Uranie Bornand, whose father was Justin Bornard. Ramseyer’s nephew, Edmond Perregaux died in Kumasi in 1905.
caption: Mrs. Ramseyer giving sewing classes on her veranda in Kumasi.
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