William Campbell
Author, Deceased Person
1841 – 1921
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Who was William Campbell?
William Campbell was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan. He wrote extensively on topics related to Taiwan and was also responsible for founding the island's first school for the blind. Interested in the early history of the island, his knowledge of the time was such that he was called "without doubt the greatest authority on this subject living". He was likely the first European to see Sun-Moon Lake, which he named Lake Candidius after the seventeenth century Dutch missionary George Candidius.
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- Born
- 1841
Scotland - Also known as
- 甘為霖
- Profession
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Died
- Sep 9, 1921
Scotland
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on July 23, 2013
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