Carel Hendrik Bartels

Carel Hendrik Bartels (29 September 1792 – 10 February 1850) was the wealthiest and most important Euro-African trader and businessman on the Dutch Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Apart from his entrepreneurial activities, Bartels was also a judge and member of the colonial government in Elmina, making him one of the most important men in town.

Bartels has an entry in Hutchison's The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities. The American historian Larry W. Yarak found an engraving based on a photograph of Bartels in 1995.