page_title: Lucien Bia
hierarchical_section_title: Lucien Bia
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. This object is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
context_page_description: Lucien Bia was a Belgian soldier and explorer of the Congo.
  Bia was born in Liège, and after a tumultuous adolescence enrolled in the Army in 1870 for the Franco-German wars. He set out for the Congo Free State on March 15, 1887, in service with the Compagnie du Katanga. In 1892, after several expeditions across the Congo, he was promoted to Commandant de caravane, and served as lead guide for geologist Jules Cornet into Katanga to study mineral deposits in the regions of Likasi and Kambove. Bia died in the Congo after an illness, and was buried near the Ditakata hills.
context_section_description: Lucien Bia (2 December 1852 - August 30, 1892) was a Belgian soldier and explorer of the Congo.
  Bia was born in Liège, and after a tumultuous adolescence enrolled in the Army in 1870 for the Franco-German wars. He set out for the Congo Free State on March 15, 1887, in service with the Compagnie du Katanga. In 1892, after several expeditions across the Congo, he was promoted to Commandant de caravane, and served as lead guide for geologist Jules Cornet into Katanga to study mineral deposits in the regions of Likasi (Jadotville) and Kambove. Bia died in the Congo after an illness, and was buried near the Ditakata hills.
caption: Captain Lucien Bia
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