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Emin Pasha (āmēn` pä`shä), 1840–92, German explorer, whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. A physician, he served (1876–78) under Gen. Charles Gordon in Sudan as a district medical officer. In 1878 he succeeded Gordon as governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Egyptian Sudan. In 1885 he was cut off from the outside world by the Mahdist uprising, and several European explorers—including Sir H. M. Stanley Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, 1841–1904, Anglo-American journalist and empire builder, b. Denbigh, Wales. Originally named John Rowlands, he took the name of his adoptive father in New Orleans, where Stanley went in 1857. ..... Click the link for more information. —were sent to rescue him. Although his position was not desperate, he agreed (1889) at length to accompany Stanley to Mombasa. He was murdered while engaged in exploration for Germany in the region of Lake Tanganyika. BibliographySee Sir Henry Stanley, In Darkest Africa, ed. by J. S. Keltie (1890, repr. 1969); studies by I. R. Smith (1972) and R. Jones (1973). |
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In 1867 explorer and adventurer Henry Morton Stanley went on a mission to rescue Emin Pasha, last remaining lieutenant of General Gordon and presiding governor of Equatoria, the southern-most province of Egypt's Sudan. 4), Ernst Marno, Ignaz Knoblecher, Wilhelm Junker, Richard Buchta and especially those of Emin Pasha, alias Eduard Schnitzler (Fig. |
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