Josef Ohrwalder
Josef Ohrwalder (born March 6, 1856 in Lana , Austrian Empire , † August 7, 1913 in Omdurman , Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ) was a Comboni missionary and author .
Life
Ohrwalder joined the missionary society Daniele Comboni and was in 1880 Cairo for Catholic ordained priest. In 1881 he traveled via Khartoum to the Delen Mission in the Nuba Mountains . He led this together with Father Luigi Bonomi. In the course of the beginning of the Mahdi uprising , the station was repeatedly attacked. In 1882, Ohrwalder was finally captured by the Mahdists and brought to El Obeid . From 1886 he was in the capital of the Mahdists Omdurmanheld captive. In 1891, Ohrwalder was able to flee with two Italian missionary sisters. In Cairo, with the help of the British intelligence officer Francis Reginald Wingate , Ohrwalder wrote his book Uprising and Empire of the Mahdi in Sudan and my ten years imprisonment there . This and the book Fire and Sword in Sudan , written by Slatin Pasha , were popular writings advocating the reconquest of Sudan by Great Britain . The mood in the British population was set by the two reports against the Caliphate of Omdurman.
After a short stay in Austria, Ohrwalder returned to Egypt and Sudan in 1892. At first he worked in Suakin . For around 10 years, the city was, besides the Egyptian border area, the only point in Sudan that was held against the Mahdists by the British. After the suppression of the Mahdi uprising in the Battle of Omdurman , he was, together with his German brother, Father Wilhelm Banholzer , the first missionary to return to Khartoum after 15 years. He served as a missionary in Omdurman until his death.
Fonts
- Rebellion and empire of the Mahdi in Sudan and my ten years imprisonment there. Innsbruck 1892.
literature
- A. Gruber: Ohrwalder Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 222.
- H. Pleticha: The Mahdi uprising in eyewitness accounts. Düsseldorf 1981.
- Simone Paganini: Il movimento mahdista e P. Josef Ohrwalder: il movimento mahdista e l'esperienza di missione e di prigionia di un prete sudtirolese nel Sudan della fine del 1800. Diploma thesis, University of Innsbruck, 1999.
- Johanna Mayr: Josef Ohrwalder, an influenced author. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Ohrwalder in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reinhold Baumann: Ten years prisoner of the Mahdi. on comboni.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ohrwalder, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian missionary and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lana , Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1913 |
| Place of death | Omdurman , Sudan |