Gabriel GF Bach was born in 1945 in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, of Basel Mission (Swiss Christian Missionary Society) missionary parents. With the Chinese communist conquest of China, the family returned to Europe in 1947.He grew up in Huningue, Alsace, a town bordering Switzerland and Germany. He was raised in a bicultural social environment and a pietist Moravian family atmosphere. After graduating with a law degree from the Université de Strasbourg, France, he studied political science at Tulane University in New Orleans.Gabriel is a Professor Emeritus at the Dallas College in Texas where he published articles on local government, in professional journals. His master's thesis is "The Political Thought of Sun Yat Sen", and his doctoral dissertation is "Alsatian Mayors of the 'Coin Frontalier' ".He has traveled internationally, and while spending a summer of studies in Cameroon, was the guest of a leper medical campus managed by the American Presbyterian Church.He lives with his family in North Texas.