Emin Pasha, 1840-1892
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Name (Hebrew)
אמין פחה, 1840-1892
Name (Latin)
Emin Pasha, 1840-1892
Name (Cyrilic)
Эмин Паша, 1840-1892
Other forms of name
Mehemet Amin, 1840-1892
Mehmed Emin Pascha, 1840-1892
Schnitzer, Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor, 1840-1892
Schnitzer, Isaak Eduard, 1840-1892
Schnitzer, Isaak, 1840-1892
nna Schnitzer, Eduard, 1840-1892
Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 1840-1892
Schnitzer, Eduard, 1840-1892 nna
Schnitzer, Eduard, known as Emin Pasha, 1840-1892
Emin Pascha, 1840-1892
Pasha, Emin, 1840-1892
Шницер, Эдуард, 1840-1892
Эмин, Правитель Экватории, 1840-1892
אמין פאשה, 1840-1892
שניצר, יצחק אדוארד, 1840-1892
Date of birth
1840-03-28
Date of death
1892-10-23
Place of birth
Opole (Poland)
Associated country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Germany
South Sudan
Sudan
Field of activity
Africa--Colonization
Germany--Colonies
Occupation
Colonial administrators
Governors
Associated Language
ger
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Emin Pascha, 2014:p. 334-335 (Isaak/Eduard Schnitzer, alias Emin Pasha; b. in Oppeln (Opole, Silesia) in 1840; studied medicine in Breslau (Wroclaw), Berlin and Königsberg; did not complete his studies, did not obtain qualification to work as medical doctor in Germany; worked as a physician in the Balkans and Turkey in the 1860s; went to Khartoum and to southernmost province of Turko-Egyptian Sudan in 1875, met Colonel Charles Gordon, changed his name to "Emin Effendi"; promoted to the rank of Bey in 1878, and to Pasha in 1887; appointed Gordon's successor as governor of the province of Equatoria; after years of neglect by the Egyptian govt., he was "rescued" by Henry Morton Stanley, who led him to (German) East Africa; his decision to work in the German Colonial Service caused serious irritations in the UK; he led a German expedition, the "Lakes Expedition", to the interior of Africa, hoisting the German flag in several places; his unauthorized acts caused quarrels with the German Reichskommissar Hermann von Wissmann; traveled toward his former province and then toward the Congo; killed Aug. 1892 near Kinena, Congo Free State)
- Wikipedia, Dec. 16, 2015(Emin Pasha; Mehmed Emin Pasha; b. Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; b. Mar. 28, 1840; on arrival in Khartoum Dec. 1875 he took the name "Mehemet Emin", started a medical practice; collected plant, animal and bird specimens, some sent to European museums; murdered by Arab slave traders at Kinena Station near Nyangwe, Congo Free State, Oct. 23-24, 1892)
- His Gefahrvolle Entdeckungsreisen in Zentralafrika ... c1983:t.p. (Emin Pascha) p. 10 (b. 3/28/1840 as Eduard Schnitzer; d. 1892)
- African biographical index, 1999(Schnitzer, Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor; known as Emin Pasha; 1840-1892; physician; administrator in Sudan)
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Wikipedia description:
Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".
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