Gabriel Bach

Missionary Journeys Gabriel Bach

Gabriel GF Bach was born in 1945 in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, of Basel Mission missionary parents. He grew up in a bicultural, pietist Moravian culture, raised in a French town bordering Switzerland and Germany. After graduating with a law degree from the Universite de Strasbourg, France, he was the recipient of a scholarship to study political science at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Gabriel is a Professor Emeritus at the Dallas College in Texas where he published many articles on local government in newspapers as well as in international professional journals in France, Canada, and the United States. His master's thesis is T he Political T hought of Sun Vat Sen, and his Tulane University doctoral dissertation is Alsatian Mayors of the 'Coin Frontalier'.

He has traveled around Europe, United States, Canada, and Mexico and while spending a summer of studies in Cameroon, he was the guest for a few days on a leper medical campus managed by the American Presbyterian Church. He is married with two children and lives with his wife in North Texas. When not playing on his harmonica, you will see him enjoying his daily nature-trail walk, or tending to his garden water fall.