Charles Henry Churchill

This article refers to the British officer Charles Henry Churchill. He is not identical to Charles Henry Spencer-Churchill (1828–1877), who was also an officer.

CH Churchill (youth portrait)

Colonel Charles Henry Churchill (* 1807 ; † 1869 ) was a British officer and diplomat. He was the British consul in Syria , which was then part of the Ottoman Empire .

As the British consul in Damascus, Churchill demanded a Jewish state of Israel in Palestine as early as the 1840s . He wrote several important (cultural) historical works on the Middle East , including an extensive biography of Abd el-Kader , whom he met during his exile in Damascus .

Fonts

• Mount Lebanon: A Ten Years' Residence from 1842 to 1852, describing the Manners, Customs, and Religion of its Inhabitants with a Full and Correct Account of the Druse Religion and Containing Historical Records of the Mountain Tribes from Personal Intercourse with their Chiefs and Other Authentic Sources. 3 volumes. Saunders & Otley, London 1853. Facsimile reprint: Elibron Classics, 2000–2002, ISBN 1-4021-1050-2 (Volume 1), ISBN 1-4021-1749-3 (Volume 2) and ISBN 1-4021-0986 -5 (Volume 3),
• The Druzes and the Maronites under the Turkish Rule from 1840 to 1860. Bernard Quaritch, London 1862. Facsimile-reprint: Elibron Classics, 2001, ISBN 1-4021-3059-7 .
• Life of Abd el-Kader: Ex-Sultan of the Arabs of Algeria: written from his own Dictation and compiled from other Authentic Sources. 8 volumes. Chapman and Hall, London 1867.

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Kornrumpf, Jutta Kornrumpf: Strangers in the Ottoman Empire 1826–1912 / 13. Bio-bibliographical register. 2nd Edition. Self-published, Stutensee 1998.

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