Richard Kandt (* 17 December 1867 in floats; "† 26 April 1918 in Nuremberg), originally Kantorowicz, was a German physician and Africa researcher.

Richart Kandt was active as psychiatrists in Bayreuth and Munich. Between 1897 and 1907 he investigated the northwest of German East Africa and became 1908 resident of the Gouvernements Rwanda, where he created Kigali. Kandt is in Rwanda this very day a highly respected person. In its house in Kigali a natural history museum is furnished.

Richard Kandt discovered one of the sources of the Nile in the year 1898 in the Rwandese Nyungwe forest. In its work Caput Nili reports Kandt on it.

Its report over Rwanda, with exact observation gift and projecting SAMness written, is today very worth reading until.

Work

Caput Nili - a empfindsame journey to the sources of the Nile. 1904

Literature

• Pure-hard binding rope: Richard Kandt and indirect colonial rule in Rwanda. In: Ulrich van the Heyden, Joachim Zeller (Hg.) ""Â… Power and portion of the world domination. "Berlin and the German colonialism. Unrast publishing house. 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2

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