David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstone (1813–1873) was a Scottish physician, Christian missionary and explorer whose journeys across central and southern Africa made him one of the best-known Victorians. Born in Blantyre, he began work in a cotton mill at ten and studied by night, later training in medicine and theology before arriving in southern Africa with the London Missionary Society in 1841. Between 1853 and 1856 he crossed the continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, and in 1855 he became the first European to see the great falls of the Zambezi, which he named Victoria Falls. His book Missionary Travels and his reports on the East African slave trade strengthened public efforts to end it. In 1871 the journalist Henry Morton Stanley found him at Ujiji. He died in present-day Zambia in 1873, and his African companions carried his body to the coast for burial in Westminster Abbey.
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Great Christian Missionaries
St. Paul carried the Christian message across the Roman world on his missionary journeys. Centuries later, David Livingstone combined mission work with exploration in southern and central Africa, and Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Albert Schweitzer established a hospital at Lambaréné in present-day Gabon, and Mother Teresa devoted her life to the poor of Calcutta.
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