August Schynse

August Wilhelm Schynse ( born June 21, 1857 in Wallenhausen in Bad Kreuznach, † November 18, 1891 in Bukumbi Lake Victoria ) was a German, Catholic missionary, explorer and cartographer.

Life

August Schynse, the son of an estate manager, studied philosophy and theology in Bonn. He entered the seminary in 1879 in Speyer. 1880 August Schynse was ordained a priest in the cathedral of Speyer. After that, he lived for a short time as chaplain at home at Caen money. Schynse traveled in September 1882 to Algiers to enter founded there the first German in 1868 by Charles Martial Lavigerie Society of Missionaries of Africa ( White Fathers ).

After some delay, he reached in 1885 its operational area on the middle Congo. Initially he worked at the station for the parent Manyanga the Bayanzi. He traveled with the order to find suitable locations for the establishment of a mission station. As a result of his explorations, he founded the station Bungana at the mouth of the Kasai in the Congo. After the Vatican had granted the intervention of the Belgian King Leopold II, the instruction to leave the missionary work in the Congo Free State to the Belgian Scheut missionaries had to leave the area in 1887 the White Fathers.

Father August Wilhelm Schynse was after a stay in Europe for a short time economist and a mathematics teacher at the Ecole Notre Dame d' Afrique (St Eugène ) in Algiers.

From 1887, he worked for the German East Africa in the mission Kipalapala at Tabora. Because of the uprising of the East African coastal populations he had in 1889 with a caravan of 280 carriers, flee 36 children and 11 Askari to the mission station Bukumbi Lake Victoria. There he met a message of the relief expedition of Henry Morton Stanley and Emin Pasha, the much needed new equipment, but was already on the way to the east coast. Schynse was commissioned to transport. By forced marches and with an almost going blind missionary who should be brought to the East African coast, he reached the expedition. With the caravan of Stanley and Emin Pasha came Schynse to Zanzibar on the coast. In his travels, he led his observations diary. This diary was published without his privity and excited by his revelations about the real purpose of the trip Stanley and his relationship with Emin Pasha in Germany quite a stir.

In this diary Schynse wrote: "I verplaudere the greater part of the way with Emin Pasha, who makes no secret about the actual expedition purposes. How should a grated Scottish businessman ( Mackinnon, who blazes a lot of money for the expedition Stanley'sche ) expire all at once the idea of ​​spending large sums of money in order to get an Egyptian official, he has perhaps not even knew the name after? This expedition was not so much the Dr. Emin Pasha, as his province and his ivory. "

In 1890 he recorded " at the request of the German government, which he otherwise made ​​as an interpreter, cartographer, etc. essential services ", in part to further explorations of Emin Pasha. Schynses first trip with Emin Pasha and Franz Stuhlmann from April 26 to July 29, 1890 resulted from Bagamoyo to Tabora. The second expedition from August 20 to September 8 In 1890 from Tabora to Bukumbi on Lake Victoria. The third trip to the southwest corner of the lake to Buddu, a province in Uganda and from there via the German station Bukoba and the lake back to Bukumbi lasted from 29 January to 9 March 1891. Schynse Father wrote for science valuable notes, which were published after his death. Privations and fever had weakened him. He died on 18 November 1891 in Bukumbi.

August Wilhelm Schynse scientific merits earned in the cartographic representation of the southwest side of Lake Victoria. " His scientific diaries testify to a careful study of the country and people to protect the inhabitants from slave hunters, to the pacification of the country and preservation of indigenous cultural values ​​in the Church's missionary work."

Schynes Sister Catherine Schynse (1854-1935) was in 1893, after his death, the founder and General Director of the "Association of Catholic Women and young women to support the Central African missions of the White Fathers ," today's " Catholic Pontifical Mission women."

Works

  • Two years in the Congo, experiences and descriptions. ( Eds): Karl J. P. Hespers Bachem, Cologne 1889.
  • With Stanley and Emin Pasha by German East Africa. ( Eds): Karl J. P. Hespers Bachem, Cologne 1890. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Report on the trip to the south-western shore of the Victoria Nyanza with card in Peter 's Geographical releases, 1891, p 219
  • P. Schynses Recent Travel, letters and diaries. ( Eds): Karl Hespers, Cologne 1892.
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