Nubar Pasha

Boghos Nubar Pasha (Arabic بوغوص نوبار باشا; * January 1825 in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, † January 14, 1899 in Paris) was an Egyptian politician of Armenian descent and the first Prime Minister of Egypt. Throughout his career, he was three times Prime Minister:

His son was Nubar Pasha BOGOS, founder of the AGBU.

Life

Nubar was born in present-day Izmir in Turkey in 1825. His father was an Armenian merchant named Mgrdich, his mother a relative of Boghos Bey Yusufian, an influential minister in the service of Muhammad Ali Pasha. On Boghos Nubar Pasha Bey's instigation received instruction in Vevey and Toulouse, where he was taught by Jesuits.

Just before he was eighteen, Nubar traveled to Egypt, where he. Boghos at Bey, trade and foreign minister was at this time, got a job as a secretary After an eight -month training, he was promoted to second secretary of Muhammad Ali Pasha. In 1845 he became First Secretary of his adopted son and heir, Ibrahim Pasha, whom he accompanied on trips through Europe.

When Abbas Pasha Khedive in 1848, that is, Viceroy of Egypt, was, he took over Nubar into his service and sent him in 1850 as his agent to London to negotiate with the Ottoman Sultan. Since he was successful, he was appointed Bey. In 1853 he was sent for similar negotiations to Vienna, where he then lived until the death of Abbas in July 1854.

The new viceroy Muhammad Said dismissed him from his office, but appointed him two years later to his chief secretary. He also gave him the responsibility for the transportation business between Egypt and India. In this range, Nubar dedicated mainly for the completion of the railroad between Cairo and Suez. Said dismissed him a second time, then sent him back to Vienna but before he was returned to his post as first secretary again.

After the death of Said in January 1863, Ismail Pasha, Khedive of new. With him was Nubar friends, had saved him by his own admission even life. Ismail sent him as an agent to Constantinople Opel, where he was to pave the way for the plans of the new viceroy, which included the completion of the Suez Canal. Because of its success Nubar Pasha was appointed. Nubar traveled to Paris to settle disputes of the French Empire with Egypt. After his return from Paris he was Egypt's first minister of public works, a department that he had to build first. In 1866 he was appointed foreign minister. From 1867 it was at his instigation to negotiations between the Egyptian government and a number of European countries, which led to the creation of the Mixed Courts in Egypt in 1876.

Ismail had brought the country through its lavish approach to the brink of insolvency. He was eventually forced by Britain and France, the government to share with Nubar, Charles Rivers Wilson as minister of finance and the Marquis de Blignieres as minister of public works.