Albert van Dantzig

Albert van Dantzig (16 March 1937 – 27 July 2000) was a Dutch historian of the Dutch colonization of the Gold Coast. From 1963 until his retirement, he served as professor of history at the University of Ghana at Legon.

Biography Van Dantzig moved to Paris in 1961 to do a PhD at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences under the supervision of . Two years later, Van Dantzig moved to Ghana when he was given the opportunity to teach at the University of Ghana. He defended his thesis in 1970, which was eventually published in 1980.

While in Ghana, Van Dantzig married a Togolese woman with whom he had a daughter. In the late 1990s, Van Dantzig and his family decided to move to the Netherlands where he could be better treated for Alzheimer's disease, with which he had been diagnosed. Albert van Dantzig died in 2000.