Joseph Ohrwalder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Ohrwalder

Italian priest

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1856

Place of Birth: Lana, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1913

Profession: missionary

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Father Joseph Ohrwalder (6 March 1856 Lana, South Tyrol - 8 August 1913 Omdurman/Sudan) Born in Lana, County of Tyrol in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 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 travails was rendered into English by Francis Reginald Wingate from a sketchy translation.
Wingate had helped him escape from Sudan.