Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim was a French soldier and author. He led an erratic and adventurous life, wandering over the world, changing his name and even his religion several times. At one time he is disguised as a Muslim with the name of "Ibrahim Manṣur Effendi", serving in the Turkish army; at another he is found holding office in Westphalia under the name of "Medelsheim".

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  • Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim was a French soldier and author. He led an erratic and adventurous life, wandering over the world, changing his name and even his religion several times. At one time he is disguised as a Muslim with the name of "Ibrahim Manṣur Effendi", serving in the Turkish army; at another he is found holding office in Westphalia under the name of "Medelsheim". In 1813, he took on the name Ibrahim Cerfberovic and fought against the Serbians in Bosnia serving alongside men such as Osman Gradaščević while serving in the district of Zvornik; the Serbs were eventually defeated after the arrival of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Hursid Pasha in 1813. At the end of the war he wandered throughout the East, sojourned for a time in Austria and at Naples it's no the Italian city of Naples, but "Napoli of Romania", to the Albanian Southern bordersee "Mémoires... ",p. 104, and from 1814 to 1817 served in the army of Ali Pasha of Janina. On his return home Cerfberr published a work entitled Mémoires sur la Grèce et l'Albanie Pendant le Gouvernement d'Ali-Pacha (Paris, 1826).
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  • Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim was a French soldier and author. He led an erratic and adventurous life, wandering over the world, changing his name and even his religion several times. At one time he is disguised as a Muslim with the name of "Ibrahim Manṣur Effendi", serving in the Turkish army; at another he is found holding office in Westphalia under the name of "Medelsheim".
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