Louis-Gustave Binger

Louis- Gustave Binger ( born October 14, 1856 in Strasbourg, † November 10, 1936 in L' Isle- Adam ) was a French officer and explorer.

Binger held to three times longer time in Senegal and neighboring countries, thereby attracting the attention of the French governor Faidherbe up. The supported him in his undertaking to cross Northwest Africa from the upper Niger to the coast of Guinea. Binger traveled in 1887 from Bamako on Tenetu after Sikasso and south to Kong, which he reached on February 20, 1888.

He noted here that the previously registered on the cards Kong mountains did not exist. For this he determined the narrow watershed between the tributaries of the Niger and the aftermath of the Gulf of Guinea to the south flowing rivers Lahu and Akha (or Komor ).

From Kong Binger turned off to the north and the Black Volta at Boromo to Ouagadougou, which lies to the east. Here he was forced to turn back to the south and as he reached through Gurunsi in October Salaga, then Kintampo and Bontuku. On 5 January 1889 he met with to meet him sent Treich - Laplène and followed with this combines the running of the Grand- Bassam on the Ivory Coast. Through agreements with the chiefs in Tieba, Kong and Bontuku he put the wide stretches of land between the upper Niger and the Gulf of Guinea under French influence, and had the trade after the French colony of Great - Bassam new ways.

Binger described his journey in the two-volume work you Niger au Golfe de Guinée (Paris 1891). Binger in 1892 at the head of a French mission, the French and British territories should be established by the Aschantigebiet. He was then for several years 1893-1898 governor of the French Ivory Coast, and in 1898 became director of the French Ministry of Colonies.

Louis Gustave Binger died on 10 November 1936 in L' Isle- Adam in the Ile de France and is at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris buried.

  • African explorer
  • Colonialist
  • Military person (France )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1856
  • Died in 1936
  • Man
  • History (Ivory Coast)
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