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| Paul Erdmann Isert | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 1756 | Born (Brandenburg). | ||
| November 1783 | Employed by the Danish West India and Guinea Company as surgeon and botanist at Christiansborg, Gold Coast. | ||
| 1786 | Concluded treaty with Krobo tribe, Gold Coast for Denmark. | ||
| October 1786 | Left the Coast when refused permission to travel inland at the invitation of the Asante king, Osei Kwame. | ||
| November 1788 | Returned with his bride of seven months and started a plantation (Frederiksnopel in Akuapen), hoping to make the slave trade redundant by growing the same products raised in the West Indies. | ||
| 21 January 1789 | Died. | ||
| His wife died on 25 Feb. Their daughter, born on 17 Feb, survived her mother by only three weeks. | |||
| The Royal Danish Embassy to Ghana is on Dr. Isert Road, Accra. | |||
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