SCHYNSE, AUGUST WILHELM. – Missionary, born on 21 June 1857 at Wallhausen near Kreuznach; ordained a priest in 1880, he was the first German to join the White Fathers in 1882; missionary in the Congo from 1885 to 1887, and from 1887 onward in German East Africa.
He accompanied Stanley on his return to the eastern coast and, in 1890, Emin Pascià on his expedition into the interior of Africa; he died on 18 November 1891 at Bukumbi. His travel journals, published by Carlo Hespers, were received with great acclaim in Germany: Zwei Jahre am Kongo (Cologne 1889); Mit Stanley und Emin Pascha durch Deutsch-Ostafrika (ibid. 1890); P. Schynses letzte Reise (ibid. 1892).
BIBL.: anon., P. Aug. S. und seine Missionsreisen in Afrika, Strasbourg 1894; anon., P. S. Sein Leben und Wirken, Trier 1897.
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