1. Emin Pasha was a student at the Kolegium Carolinum Neisse in Nysa, Poland, at the universities at Breslau, Konigsberg, and Berlin, qualifying as a physician in 1864.
13 Facts About Emin Pasha
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Emin Pasha put his linguistic talent to good use, as well, adding Turkish, Albanian, and Greek to his repertoire of languages.
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Emin Pasha became the quarantine officer of the port, leaving only in 1870 to join the staff of Ismail Hakki Pasha, governor of northern Albania; in the service, he travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire, although the details are little-known.
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When Hakki Pasha died in 1873, Emin went back to Neisse with the pasha's widow and children, where he passed them off as his own family, but left suddenly in September 1875, reappearing in Cairo and then departing for Khartoum, where he arrived in December.
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At this point he took the name "Mehemet Emin Pasha", started a medical practice, and began collecting specimens of plants, animals, and birds, many of which he sent to museums in Europe.
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Emin Pasha showed himself to be a bitter foe of slavery.
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When Lupton reached Lado almost two years later he found that Emin Pasha did not want to be relieved.
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Emin Pasha became Emin's deputy, in charge of the Latuka district based at Tarangole.
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Emin Pasha spent two months in a hospital recovering, while Stanley left without being able to bring him back in triumph.
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Emin Pasha then entered the service of the German East Africa Company and accompanied Dr Franz Stuhlmann on an expedition to the lakes in the interior, but was killed by two Arab slave traders at Kinena Station in the Congo Free State, near Nyangwe, on 23 or 24 October 1892.
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Emin Pasha added greatly to the anthropological knowledge of central Africa and published valuable geographical papers.
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Emin Pasha is commemorated in the scientific name of an East African species of leptotyphlopid snake, Emin Pasha's worm snake Leptotyphlops emini, and an East African species of Passer sparrow, the chestnut sparrow Passer eminibey.
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Emin Pasha is honoured in both the specific name and common name of Emin's shrike, the specific name means governor.