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Charles Neufeld was an Austrian merchant who spent twelve years as a prisoner in the Sudan, starting in 1887. He published a memoir, A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years' Captivity at Omduran, in 1899.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50812FE39541B728...
archive.org/details/prisonerofkhalee00neufuoft

Another book, Under the Rebel's Reign: A Story of Egyptian Revolt, followed in 1900:
www.gutenberg.org/files/23829/23829-h/23829-h.htm

He was born Karl Neufeld and is found frequently under that name as well. A pretty colorful character.
An 1898 account of his life through his imprisonment:
query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70717F83A5D11...
Here's an 1899 account of his life after he was freed from prison and went to London.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60B11F93F5414728...
In November, 1915, he was reported arriving in Constantinople en route from Medina
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E15F73C5A11738...
A German Wikipedia article on an unsuccessful German expedition to establish communications and propaganda centers in Yemen during 1916 mentions that he was part of the expedition.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotzingen-Mission
There is a further account of his life published in July, 1918 when he died in Germany.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E15F73C5A11738...
An ancestor has posted a short biographical account:
www.egyptedantan.com/carlneufeld.htm
There really should be a Wikipedia entry for this fellow.

Correct link for the November 1915 NYT article above (about returning from Medina) is
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10911F8385B17738...

The Grey River Argus , 3 February 1916, Page 3
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=GR...
suggests that he was sent to Medina as a spy and/or to spread disinformation.

An engraving of Neufeld:
www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/CD/3317/2014/0835/...
and a postcard
my.opera.com/Elsir/albums/showpic.dml?album=470676&pi...
and a postcard of Neufeld and his monkey in Aswan, Egypt:
www.chinons.fr/Client/Module/galerie/galerie/7/7428.jpg

Thanks pennylrichardsca, artolog and swanq. The links are great. This guy seems like quite a character. I'll ask that we add Charles and Karl to the record.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sweden before 1945, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Leach Cross (b. 1886) was known as "the fighting dentist." He was indeed a dentist, born Louis Wallach in an Orthodox Jewish immigrant family on the Lower East Side. He won forty-three fights and fought five champions to draws. See Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience by Peter Levine (Oxford University Press 1992). Carl Morris (1887-1951) was a Kentucky fighter known as "the Original White Hope." cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/morris-c.htm

And ... Zeca Floriano ? He was a brazilian sportsman,son of "Marechal Floriano Peixoto",the second president of Brazil !

those look like some bad mofo's

Louis de Ponthieu, the French lightweight query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500EED7123CE633A...

Here's Carl's record at boxrec.com.