Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.

The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century. Led by Henry Morton Stanley, its goal was ostensibly the relief of Emin Pasha, the besieged Egyptian governor of Equatoria (part of modern-day South Sudan), who was threatened by Mahdist forces.

Mar 24, 2025 · Mehmed Emin Pasha was a physician, explorer, and governor of the Equatorial province of Egyptian Sudan who contributed vastly to the knowledge of African geography, natural history, ethnology, and languages.

Mar 2, 2021 · Emin Pasha : his life and work compiled from his journals, letters, scientific notes and from official documents.

EMIN PASHAEMIN PASHA (Eduard Schnitzer ; 1840–1892), Austrian traveler and explorer. Born of Jewish parents in Silesia, he was baptized as a child. He served as a quarantine doctor in Albania, and from 1870–74 as private physician to the governor of Albania.

German explorer; born at Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, March 28, 1840; killed at Kinena Station, Kongo Free State, Oct. 23 or 24, 1892. When he was only two years old his parents moved to Neisse, where in 1846 the boy was baptized into the Protestant Church.

Emin Pasha, sometimes called “the father of the Equatorial Provinces,” is a notable figure in the records of African exploration. He was preëminently a scientist and was devotedly fond of zoölogy and botany.

Since Emin Pasha (Pascha in German) was for one great expedition intimately connected with Stuhlmann (see Conchologists’ Newsletter 106: 114 (1988)) it is appropriate to deal with him next. Emin was an important administrator and has become an historical figure.

Emin Bey or Emin Pasha, born Edouard Schnitzer was the German-born Governor of southern Sudan's province of Equatoria, and a convert to Islam. He had been cut off from the outside world since...

The expedition is known to history as the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (EPRE) and despite his Turkish sounding name, "Emin" was Eduard Schnitzer, born a Jew in Protestant Germany before converting, first to Lutherism and then Islam.