MacGahan, JA

Japanese: MacGahan,J.A.(英語表記)MacGahanJA
MacGahan, JA

...American diplomat and Central Asian explorer. In the spring of 1873, Schuyler, who was the American consul general in St. Petersburg, traveled to West Turkistan with the journalist Januarius Aloysius MacGahan (1844-78). After parting ways with MacGahan, who was going to Khiva, Schuyler inspected Samarkand, Tashkent, Kokand, and other places, before returning home via Issyk-Kul and Kurja. He later served as consul general in Turkey, and in 1890 was appointed consul general in Egypt, where he died suddenly shortly after.

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…アメリカの外交官,中央アジア探検家。1873年春,ペテルブルグのアメリカ総領事の職にあったスカイラーは,新聞記者マックガーハンJanuarius Aloysius MacGahan(1844‐78)と西トルキスタンに向かい,ヒバへ行くマックガーハンと別れ,サマルカンド,タシケント,コーカンド等を視察し,イシク・クル,クルジャをへて帰国した。その後トルコ総領事などを務め,90年エジプト総領事に任ぜられ,直後急死した。…

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