Schnitzer

Schnitzer, EDUARD (EMIN PASHA), was born in 1840, and, after studying medicine, went to Turkey, where he adopted an Eastern name and habits, embracing, it is believed, the Mussulman faith. In 1876 he entered the Egyptian medical service, was sent to Khartoum, and appointed by Gordon chief medical officer in the Equatorial Province (1878). Soon after the outbreak of the Mahdists he was completely cut off from civilisation, and nothing was heard of him until his discovery, by Stanley in 1889. Stanley brought him to Zanzibar and he returned to Lake Victoria. At the end of 1893 rumours reached the coast of his murder by Arabs, but the facts are still uncertain.