Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856

Lana, South Tyrol Lana (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy. It is situated in the Etschtal (Etsch Valley) between Bolzano and Merano and at the entrance to the Ultental. The population rose to 12,566 in 2020. It ...

– 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) Born in Lana,

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in the

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, Ohrwalder was a Roman Catholic priest, who was taken captive by the 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 General (United Kingdom), General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator in Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan. He served as List of governors of p ...

from a sketchy translation. Wingate had helped him escape from Sudan.

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