David livingstone missionary biography
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Livingstone, David ()
Geographer and missionär in Africa
Livingstone began work in the local cotton mill at the age of ten but attended the mill school from eight until ten o’clock each evening and achieved university ingång qualifications. He attended the Andersonian Medical School in Glasgow while working in the mill for part of the year to support han själv . He was accepted for service bygd the London Missionary gemenskap (LMS) and in went to London for theological training while continuing his medical studies there. He returned to Glasgow only to take his medical final exams.
A speech bygd Robert Moffat, his future father-in-law, persuaded him that Africa was where he should serve. After his ordination in London, he sailed for Cape Town and arrived in March He served for a time beneath Robert Moffat among the Tswana, in whose language he was soon fluent, and in married Moffat’s daughter Mary. He was determined to bring the gospel to the free peoples beyond the white-dominated south.
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David Livingstone ( - )
Born in Blantyre in Scotland to a poor but devout Christian family, David Livingstone trained as a medical doctor in Glasgow before joining the London Missionary Society. Through this organisation, he met the South African-based missionary Robert Moffat who inspired him to come to Africa.
David Livingstone arrived in Cape Town in and joined Moffat's mission at Kuruman in the Kalahari Desert. He married Moffat's daughter Mary and, driven by his dual passion to spread the Christian faith and to explore the unknown, travelled extensively through Africa. He was an ardent campaigner against slavery and received many accolades, degrees and awards, including the Freedom of the City of London.
His anti-slavery position earned him the trust of many communities he met in Africa. Although Livingstone may not have been the
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David Livingstone ( - )
David Livingstone ©Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the 'Scramble for Africa'.
David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south of Glasgow on 19 March At 10 he began working in the local cotton mill, with school lessons in the evenings. In , he began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In , he was posted to the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. In , he married Mary Moffat, daughter of a fellow missionary.
Livingstone became convinced of his mission to reach new peoples in the interior of Africa and introduce them to Christianity, as well as freeing them from slavery. It was this which inspired his explorations. In and , he travelled across the Kalahari, on the second trip sighting the upper Zambezi River. In , he began a four year expedition to find a route from the uppe