Wilhelm Banholzer

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Wilhelm Banholzer (born May 6, 1873 in Rottweil , † February 21, 1914 in Lul, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , today South Sudan ) was a missionary in Sudan during the Mahdi uprising .

Life

William Banholzer was in the region of the Shilluk active in Sudan missionary from the Catholic Men's Order of the Brothers of the Christian Schools or school brothers , Latin Fratres Scholarum Christianorum (abbreviated FSC), primarily takes the lay brothers. The missionary Wilhelm Hofmayr owes him a lot of information for his book written in British captivity about the Nilotic people of the Schilluk , in which he used Banholzer's diary entries from his estate. After the English victory over the Mahdi in 1898, Wilhelm Banholzer, together with Josef Ohrwalder , was the first missionary to return to Khartoum after 15 years . He went on the destroyed mission and recovered the remains of Comboni from the desecrated grave. Banholzer died in Lul, a village in what is now South Sudan.

Works

  • W. Banholzer, 1904. Come vestono e come s'adornano gli Scilluk. Nigrizia.
  • W. Banholzer, 1904. Something about the history and customs of the Schilluk kings. Star of negroes . Catholic missionary magazine of the Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

literature

  • Wilhelm Hofmayr: The Schilluk: History, Religion and Life of a Nile Tribe; based on P. Banholzers FS C and own notes. St. Gabriel, Mödling near Vienna: Verl. Der Administration des Anthropos, 1925 (Ethnological Anthropos Library. International Collection of Ethnological Monographs; 2.5)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.comboni.org/fratelli/106286
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.comboni.de

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personal data
SURNAME Banholzer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Christian missionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1914
Place of death Lul, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan , now South Sudan