Emilie Christaller

Christiane Emilie Christaller, née Ziegler, (1829 – 13 August 1866) was a German educator and missionary in Akropong in colonial Ghana. She was the first wife of Johann Gottlieb Christaller (1827–1895), a German missionary, linguist and philologist of the Basel Mission, notable for his leading role in the translation of the entire Holy Bible into the Twi language.

Early life and education Christiane Emilie Ziegler was born in 1829 in the town of Waiblingen near Stuttgart in the then Kingdom of Württemberg, in the now southwest German state of Baden-Württemberg. Emilie Ziegler had seven siblings including Pauline (Frau Haefner), Marie (Frau Pfleiderer) and Bertha Ziegler who eventually married J.G. Christaller in 1872 after her sister's death in 1866. The book's content was sourced from her diaries and letters of correspondence written by her as well as those by her husband. Her parents' response always came after two months, due to the spotty correspondence between West Africa and Europe.