Romolo Gessi

Romolo Gessi (also Gessy; born April 30, 1829 in Ravenna, † May 1, 1881 in Sue ) was an Italian traveler Africa.

He joined the Austrian army, but he had to leave again in 1848 due to his participation in the rebellion of Venice. He then fought under Imam Shamil in the Caucasus against the Russians and later appeared on as an Egyptian officer in Sudan, where he in 1876 as yet unknown route of the Bahr al - Jabal explored on behalf of Charles George Gordon between Dufile and the Mwutan which he for first circumnavigated. On this occasion, Gessi found the outflow of the Nile from Lake Albert.

The next year he made with Pellegrino Matteucci a vain attempt to penetrate by Fadassi from the Oromo, and then took command in suppression of the evidence given by the slave trader Suleiman in southern Darfur and in the area of Bahr al - Ghazal uprising, which the 1880 Suleiman's death ended. Appointed Pasha and governor of the province of Bahr al - Ghazal, he tried to create orderly conditions there, but was included for three months in October 1880 for a trip on the Bahr al - Ghazal to Khartoum with a force of 400 soldiers by a plant barrier so that most of the soldiers was killed.

Romolo Gessi died on 1 May 1881 in Suez on malaria, after he was freed from the Austrian researcher Ernst Marno. From his estate was edited by his son and M. Sette anni nel work Camperio Sudan egiziano appeared ( Milan 1891).