The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von
(r´dôlf kärl fr´hr fn slä´tn) (KEY) , known as Slatin Pasha (pä´shä) (KEY) , 1857–1932, Austrian adventurer in British and Egyptian service. Called to Egypt by C. G. Gordon, Slatin became governor of Dara (1879) and governor-general of Darfur (1881). In the Mahdist War he was forced to surrender (1883) to the Arab leader, the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad; he was a prisoner until 1895, when he escaped to Cairo. After serving under Kitchener in the reconquest of Sudan, he became inspector general of Sudan (1900–1914). During World War I he headed the prisoners-of-war section of the Austrian Red Cross. He wrote Fire and Sword in the Sudan (tr. 1897) and was ennobled by the Austrian emperor in 1906.
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n) (KEY) , known as Slatin Pasha (pä´shä) (KEY) , 1857–1932, Austrian adventurer in British and Egyptian service. Called to Egypt by C. G. Gordon, Slatin became governor of Dara (1879) and governor-general of Darfur (1881). In the Mahdist War he was forced to surrender (1883) to the Arab leader, the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad; he was a prisoner until 1895, when he escaped to Cairo. After serving under Kitchener in the reconquest of Sudan, he became inspector general of Sudan (1900–1914). During World War I he headed the prisoners-of-war section of the Austrian Red Cross. He wrote Fire and Sword in the Sudan (tr. 1897) and was ennobled by the Austrian emperor in 1906.
