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Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB (7 June 1857, Ober-Sankt-Veit, Hietzing, Vienna Ð 4 October 1932, Vienna) was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.Slatin was born in Ober St Veit near Vienna. Rudolf Carl Slatin was born the fourth child of the merchant Michael Slatin, who had converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism, and his second wife, Maria Anna Feuerstein. :14Ð15 Their other children were the twins Maria and Anna (born in 1852), Heinrich (1855), Adolf (1861), and Leopoldine (1864). :15 Their father died on 13 March 1873,:19 while Rudolf was at the Viennese commercial academy. :18 While there, he heard that a German bookseller in Cairo was looking for an assistant.
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