Mehmed Emin Pasha, German Physician

Mehmed Emin Pasha (March 28, 1840 - October 23, 1892) was a physician, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. In 1875 he started a medical practice in Khartoum, and began collecting plants, animals, and birds, many of which he sent to museums in Europe. Pasha was a title conferred on him in 1886 and thereafter he was referred to as Emin Pasha. The revolt of Muhammad Ahmad that began in 1881 had cut Equatoria off from the outside world by 1883, and the following year Karam Allah marched south to capture Equatoria and Emin. Cut off from communications to the north, and determined to remain in Equatoria, his communiques, carried by his friend Wilhelm Junker, aroused considerable sentiment in Europe in 1886. The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, led by Henry Morton Stanley, undertook to rescue Emin by going up the Congo River. Stanley met Emin in April 1888, and after a year spent in argument and indecision, was convinced to leave for the coast in 1890. In 1892 on an expedition to the lakes in the interior, he was killed by two Arab slave traders. He added greatly to the anthropological knowledge of central Africa and published valuable geographical papers

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Emin Isaak Mehmed Naturalist Pasha Rescued Schnitzer Theodor

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