Joseph Ohrwalder
Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana, South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) Born in Lana, County of Tyrol in the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ohrwalder was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the Mahdist War, Mahdists in Sudan while working as a missionary there and escaped ten years later. The German manuscript of his travels was rendered into English by Francis Reginald Wingate from a sketchy translation. Wingate had helped him escape from Sudan. External links

* * 1856 births 1913 deaths People from Lana, South Tyrol {{Sudan-stub ...
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