Emin Pasha
Emin Pasha · Exploration & Discovery
Born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer to Jewish parents — physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria, whose isolation by the Mahdist revolt prompted Stanley's relief expedition
28 mars 1840, Oppeln, Silésie prussienne (aujourd'hui Opole, Pologne) — 23 octobre 1892, Kinena, État indépendant du Congo (République démocratique du Congo)
Oppeln, Khartoum, Lado (Équatoria)
Emin Pasha is recognized among Jewish contributors to Exploration & Discovery — Born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer to Jewish parents — physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria, whose isolation by the Mahdist revolt prompted Stanley's relief expedition
Origins and early life
Emin Pasha was born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer in Oppeln, in Prussian Silesia, on 28 March 1840, to Jewish parents; his father, a merchant, died in 1845, his mother remarried a Christian, and the children were baptized Lutheran in 1847 — this fiche states plainly that he was born a Jew and raised, from the age of seven, a Protestant, and that he later took a Muslim name, Mehmed Emin, without its being clear that he ever formally converted to Islam.
Work and career
He studied medicine at Breslau, Königsberg and Berlin, went in 1865 to Ottoman Albania as a physician, and in 1876 to Khartoum, where Charles Gordon, governor-general of the Sudan, made him chief medical officer of the province of Equatoria on the upper Nile and, in 1878, its governor, with the rank of bey and later of pasha. He governed it for a decade from Lado, a doctor, linguist and naturalist who sent thousands of specimens of birds, plants and insects to the museums of Europe and wrote on the peoples of the Nile, and when the Mahdist revolt cut Equatoria off from the world in 1883 he held out with his remaining garrisons for five years.
His isolation became a cause célèbre: the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley reached him on Lake Albert in April 1888, and Emin, who had not asked to be rescued, left with him only reluctantly in 1889.
Recognition
He then entered German service in East Africa, set out again for the interior, and was murdered on 23 October 1892 at Kinena, in the Congo, by Arab slave traders; the Royal Geographical Society had awarded him its Founder's Medal in 1890.
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Born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer to Jewish parents — physician, naturalist and governor of Equatoria, whose isolation by the Mahdist revolt prompted Stanley's relief expedition
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