郭显德是1860年前后众多来华的外国传教士之一。他于1863年7月从美国纽约启程来中国,同年底到达上海,1864年1月到烟台,直到1920年在烟台去世,历时56个年头。郭显德一生的绝大部分时间是在烟台渡过的,他是烟台基督教长老会的创始人;他创办西式学校,是烟台二中的奠基人;他推广西医西药,发起筹建毓璜顶医院;他宣传介绍西方科学技术,创建了国内 Guo Xiande is one of the many foreign missionaries who came to China around 1860. He departed from New York, United States in July 1863 to China, reached Shanghai at the same year, arrived in Yantai in January 1864 and died in Yantai in 1920, which lasted 56 years. Guo Xiande spent most of his life in Yantai, he is the founder of Yantai Presbyterian Church; he founded the Western school, is the founder of Yantai II; he promoted Western medicine, initiated the construction of Yuhuangding Hospital; his publicity introduction Western science and technology, created a domestic