Jules Ellenberger
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Jules Ellenberger (16 January 1871 – 20 August 1973[1]) was an Imperial civil servant.
Ellenberger was born to an old South African pioneer family in a cave in what is now Lesotho. He was the son of D. F. Ellenberger of the Paris Mission Society mission in Lesotho, an Alsatian missionary and historian,[2] and was educated at the Lovedale missionary school and in France.[3]
Ellenberger held a variety of posts in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, as the equivalent of a district commissioner at Gaborone, Ngamiland, and Mafeking. He served as assistant commissioner of the Southern Protectorate from 1902 to 1916, government secretary from 1916 to 1923, and Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1923 to 1927, replacing his brother-in-law James MacGregor. He collected oral history of the BaTswana.[2]
Ellenberger's son, (died 1977), also served in the Protectorate's civil service, and wrote on and BaTlokwa history.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Index E". rulers.org. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ a b c Morton, Fred; Ramsay, Jeff; Mgadla, Part Themba (2008). "Ellenberger, Jules". Historical Dictionary of Botswana. African Historical Dictionaries. Vol. 108 (4th ed.). Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-0-8108-5467-3.
- ^ Neil Parsons, Charles Rey And Previous Commissioners of The Bechuanaland Protectorate
- 1871 births
- 1973 deaths
- Colonial Service officers
- South African centenarians
- Men centenarians
- Governors of Bechuanaland Protectorate
- South African people stubs