Anton Wilhelm Amo

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Anton Wilhelm Amo (c. 1703 – c. 1759) was a Nzema philosopher from Axim, Dutch Gold Coast then within what was broadly considered the region of Guinea (the area is now in Ghana). Amo was a professor at the universities of Halle and Jena in Germany after studying at Halle. He was brought to Germany by the Dutch West India Company in 1707 and was presented as a gift to Dukes Augustus William and Ludwig Rudolf of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, being treated as a member of the family by their father Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. In 2020, Oxford University Press published an English translation of his philosophical works written in Latin from the early 1730s.

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