{{short description|German writer and physician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person |name = Richard Kandt |image = Kandt Richard.jpg |caption = physician and explorer |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1867|12|17}} |birth_place = Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Poznań, Poland) |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1918|4|29|1867|12|17}} |death_place = Nuremberg, Germany }}
'''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 1904 he explored the North-West of German East Africa and in 1907 was appointed as Resident of Rwanda, where he established Kigali as an administrative capital of Rwanda. His former house in Kigali is now a natural history museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.gov.rw/2_museums/kigali/kandt_house/pages_html/intro/page_intro.htm |title=NMR : Kandt House Introduction |accessdate=2008-08-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828163943/http://www.museum.gov.rw/2_museums/kigali/kandt_house/pages_html/intro/page_intro.htm |archivedate=28 August 2008 }}</ref>
thumb|Kandt's expedition 1897–1901 thumb|House of Kandt in Kigali
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. In 1898, he discovered the source of the Kagera River.<ref>{{Cite web| title=German contributions to the cartography of South West and East Africa from mid 19th century to world war I | url=https://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/110.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717033853/http://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2003/Papers/110.pdf | archive-date=2015-07-17}}</ref> 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. Shortly after, he caught a miliary tuberculosis in Poland. He died 29 April 1918 in a military hospital in Nuremberg.<ref>Deutsches Kolonialblatt, Nr. 9/10, Berlin, 15. Mai 1918</ref>
==Works== * ''Caput Nili – eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils''. Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin, 1904, 6.ergänzte Auflage 1921 * ''Seele klingt''. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1918. Poems, edited posthumously by Franz Stuhlmann.
==External links== * Kandt, Richard: [https://archive.org/details/caputnilieineemp00kanduoft ''Caput Nili; eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils. Berlin, 1904''] * Kandt, Richard: [https://archive.org/details/caputnilieineemp01kand ''Caput Nili; eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils. Band I. Berlin, 1914''] * Kandt, Richard: [https://archive.org/details/caputnilieineemp02kand ''Caput Nili; eine empfindsame Reise zu den Quellen des Nils. Band II. Berlin, 1914''] * {{PM20|FID=pe/009121}}
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