OBITUARY. 



EDUARD SCHNITZER. 



Born March 28, 1840. Died December, 1892. 



\TEWS has been received during the past month of the sad murder 

 i^ of Dr. Eduard Schnitzer, better known as Emin Pasha. The 

 event took place at the close of last year. 



Eduard Schnitzer was born on the 28th of March, 1840, in 

 Oppeln, in the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the son of 

 Ludwig Schnitzer and Pauline his wife. The family removed 

 to Neisse in 1842. After being educated in the Gymnasium of 

 Neisse, Eduard commenced the study of medicine at Breslau in 

 1858. He completed his studies in Berlin, where he attended the 

 University during 1 863-1 864 and graduated. 



A strong desire for travel led the young doctor to look for a 

 sphere of work in a foreign land, and leaving Berlin at the end of 

 1864, he went to seek a practice in Turkey. Chance led him to 

 Antivari and Scutari, where he obtained the confidence of the Vali 

 Mushir Divitji Ismail Hakki Pasha, from whom he received a post 

 on his staff, and whom he accompanied on his official journeys 

 throughout the various provinces of the extensive district under his 

 jurisdiction. In this way Schnitzer became acquainted with 

 Armenia, Syria, and Arabia, and at length Constantinople, where 

 Hakki Pasha died in 1873. 



In 1875, Schnitzer returned to Neisse, devoting his leisure to 

 Natural History. Suddenly he started off" for Egypt, and in 1876 

 we find him entering the Egyptian service as Dr. Emin Effendi. He 

 was ordered to join the Governor-General of the Soudan at Khartoum, 

 and from there was sent to act as chief medical officer in the 

 Equatorial Provinces, of which Gordon was the Governor. 



In 1878, on Gordon accepting the Governor-Generalship of the 

 Soudan, he appointed Emin Governor of the Equatorial Provinces. 

 Immediately setting to work to restore matters, his success was 

 unbounded, and by 1879, Felkin says, a most wonderful change 

 had taken place. " Stations had been rebuilt, discontent was 

 changed to loyal obedience, corruption had been put down, taxa- 

 tion was equalised, and he had already begun the task of 

 clearing his province from the slave-traders who infested it." 

 All this, with the exception of a few months' help from Lupton 



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