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Richard Kandt (17 December 1867 in Posen — 29 April 1918 in Nuremberg; original name Kantorowicz) was a German physician and explorer of Africa. ==Life== Richard Kandt started as a psychiatrist in Bayreuth and Munich. Between 1897 and 1907 he explored the North-West of German East Africa and in 1908 was appointed as Resident of Rwanda, where he founded Kigali. Nearly a century after his death, Kandt still is a well-respected person in Rwanda. His former house in Kigali is now a natural history museum.〔http://www.museum.gov.rw/2_museums/kigali/kandt_house/pages_html/intro/page_intro.htm〕 In July 1897 he started from Bagamoyo and in July 1898 Richard Kandt discovered one of the Nile-sources in the Nyungwe Forest of Rwanda, the essential Nile-source in his opinion. Kandt tells about this in his book ''Caput Nili'', a deliberately more fancy than erudite work. Between 1899 and 1901 he explored the Lake Kivu. Since about 1900 he was a close friend with the writer Richard Voss. On 2 July 1917 Kandt suffered a gas poisoning in World War I on the eastern front. Little later he caught a miliary tuberculosis in Poland. He died 29 April 1918 in a military hospital in Nuremberg.〔Deutsches Kolonialblatt, Nr. 9/10, Berlin, 15. Mai 1918〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Kandt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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