William Campbell (missionary)
The Rev. Dr. William Campbell (Chinese: 甘為霖; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kam Ûi-lîm) (1841–1921) 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 (particularly the Dutch era), 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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