Emin Pasha

Mehmed Emin
Born
Isaak Eduard Schnitzer

(1840-03-28)March 28, 1840
DiedOctober 23, 1892(1892-10-23) (aged 52)
Kinena Station, Nyangwe, Congo Free State
AwardsVega Medal (1890)
Schnitzer in 1875

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 Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".