Albert van Dantzig (16 March 1937 – 27 July 2000) was a Dutch historian of the Dutch colonization of the Gold Coast.
From 1963 until his retirement, he served as Professor of History at the University of Ghana at Legon.
[1] Van Dantzig moved to Paris in 1961 to do a PhD at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences under the supervision of Henri Brunschwig [fr].
[1] While in Ghana, Van Dantzig married a Togolese woman with whom he had a daughter.
[1][2] In the late 1990s, Van Dantzig and his family decided to move to the Netherlands where he could be better treated for Alzheimer's disease, with which he had been diagnosed.