Emin Pasha

A Prussian doctor of Jewish descent, Eduard Schnitzer had been a tutor to the children of a Turkish pasha, had an affair with their mother and became the head of the family after his employer's death. He left his family for Khartoum where he recommended himself to General Gordon, becoming Governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Sudan. After Gordon's death in the Mahdist rebellion, Schnitzer, who now called himself Emin Mohammed, found himself cut off and the subject of Stanley's famous relief expedition, which escorted him out of Sudan in April 1888 to Zanzibar where the depleted relief expedition arrived in December 1889.