Biography of Africa researchers

Subscribe to new items will send a notification of new books, audiobooks, podcasts David Livingston - a Scottish missionary, one of the greatest European researchers of Africa. Member of the London Royal Society, correspondent of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Born on March 19 year in the county of Lanark, Scotland. Parents were poor people, so David with the author of the author David Livingston is a Scottish missionary, one of the greatest European researchers of Africa.

Parents were poor people, so David worked in a weaving factory from ten years old. The boy’s life path always gravitated to knowledge, independently learned Latin and Greek, he was fond of mathematics. I set aside the money, which allowed him to get an education. In the year, he began to study medicine and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In the year he was sent to the edge of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa.

During the first mission, Livingston was convinced of the need for a deep and thorough study of the continent. He wanted to know more about the peoples of the internal regions of Africa, to introduce them to Christianity and free them from slavery. At the beginning of X Livingston travels along Kalahari, to the top of the Zambezi River. In the year, a four -year expedition began, the purpose of which was to find the path from the riding to the coast.

The information collected by the missionaries allowed to fill in the gaps in Western knowledge about Central and South Africa. In the year, Livingston discovered one of the world's largest waterfalls, which was called Victoria. He reached the mouth of the Zambezi in the Indian Ocean in May, becoming the first European to cross the width of the southern part of Africa. Returning to the UK, where he became a national hero, Livingston performed many tours with lectures and published his bestseller "missionary travel and research in South Africa." Soon he again went to the Black Continent and for five years conducted official studies of its eastern and central units for the British government.

In this expedition, Livingston lost his wife, which became a heavy blow for him. In the year, the government ordered him to return home, since the results of the expedition were very modest. Once again in England, the traveler gave the reverse side of the slave trade. In the year, Livingston sets off again. The purpose of this mission was the search for the sources of the Nile.

On the way, David stole a box with medicines, which was a real disaster for the researcher and his accompanying. And yet he did not stop, continuing to move deep into Central Africa. After for many months, there were no news from the missionary, the researcher and journalist Henry Stanley went in search of Livingston. In the year, he found a compatriot by Lake Tanganyik.

With new supplies from Stanley David continued to search for the source of the Nile. However, the health of the researcher was undermined by exhaustion and a long disease. Livingston died on May 1 of the year. His body was delivered back to England and was buried in Westminster Abbey. The traveler recorded and published a literary heritage the results of his many expeditions in the form of notes and memoirs.

They were translated into many languages, including Russian: “Diaries of the researcher of Africa”; “Travel and research in South Africa with the years”; “Traveling on Zambezi from the years”; "Last trip to Central Africa." The image of the great missionary and the discoverer became significant for many writers who were inspired by his travels. Similar authors.