Léopold Louis Joubert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léopold Louis Joubert

French missionary

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1842

Place of Birth: Saint-Herblon, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 27-May-1927

Profession: military personnel, missionary

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Léopold Louis Joubert (or Ludovic Joubert) (22 February 1842 – 27 May 1927) was a French soldier and lay missionary. He fought for the Papal States between 1860 and 1870 during the Italian unification, which he opposed. He later assisted the White Fathers missionaries in East Africa and played an important role in the suppression of the slave trade between 1885 and 1892. He married a local woman and settled by the shore of Lake Tanganyika, where he lived until his death at the age of eighty five.