August Wilhelm Schynse
Illustration — Fr. August Schynse, M.Afr. August Schynse (1857–1891) was a German Catholic missionary and African explorer born in Wallhausen, near Kreuznach, and educated at Bonn.
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August Wilhelm Schynse
Weinand · Biografie Leo XIII. · Public domain
- Born
- 1857 · Wallhausen.
- Died
- 1891 · Uganda.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Occupation
- explorer · writer · cartographer · missionary
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Fr. August Schynse, M.Afr. August Schynse (1857–1891) was a German Catholic missionary and African explorer born in Wallhausen, near Kreuznach, and educated at Bonn.
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He attended the seminary at Speyer, became a priest in 1880, and in 1882 entered the service of the African Missions (Fathers of the Missions d'Afrique or White Fathers) and was active in work in French Algeria. He was part of an expedition to the Congo in 1885. In 1888 he made a trip to East Africa and from there accompanied Stanley and Emin Pasha to the coast. He wrote: Zwei Jahre am Kongo (1889) and Mit Stanley und Emin Pascha durch Deutsch Ost-Afrika (1890).
• Hespers, Pater Schynses letzte Reisen (Cologne, 1892) • Hespers, Pater August Schynse und seine Missionsreisen in Afrika (Strassburg, 1894)
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