A self-declared Pasha and African explorer is killed
- ️David B. Green
- ️Thu Oct 22 2015
Eduard Schnitzer was born to a middle-class Jewish family, baptized as a child and ended up a governor in what is today South Sudan.
Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015
On October 23, 1892, Emin Pasha, a physician, naturalist, African explorer and colonial governor who started life as Eduard Schnitzer, was killed by two slave traders near Nyangwe, in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. Schnitzer was one of those 19th-century adventurers who reinvented himself several times, as he slipped from one culture into another, and through force of talent and personality, attained positions of great responsibility. The whole world learned about him in 1887, when an expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley journeyed into the heart of Africa to rescue him from his presumed captivity.