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Knud Holmboe (Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe) was born on 22 April, 1902 in Horsens, Denmark, is an A 20th-century danish journalist. Discover Knud Holmboe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 29 years old?

Popular As Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe
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Age 29 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April, 1902
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Horsens, Denmark
Date of death 13 October, 1931
Died Place Aqaba, Jordan
Nationality Denmark

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1902

Knud Valdemar Gylding Holmboe (22 April 1902 Horsens Denmark – 13 October 1931 Aqaba, Jordan) was a Danish journalist, author and explorer.

1921

He converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in 1921, and, after a sojourn in North Africa, ultimately converted to Islam in 1929, changing his name to Ali Ahmed el Gheseiri.

In his late teenage years he became increasingly interested in religion and philosophy, and at the age of twenty, he moved into a monastery in Clervaux/Clerf in northern Luxembourg and he converted to Catholicism in 1921.

After finishing an education as a journalist, he started to work for various Danish local papers.

1924

In search of deeper religious knowledge, Holmboe traveled to Morocco in 1924 and became acquainted with Islam.

During a meeting with a sheikh, he realized that he belonged to Islam and converted the following year.

His first book ''Between the Devil and the Deep Sea.

A Dash by Plane to Seething Morocco'' was translated from Danish and published in 1924 by Klinte Publishers.

After returning to Denmark, he wrote two books recounting his experiences in Morocco.

1925

In 1925, he began a journey across the countries of the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Persia).

1927

In 1927, he travelled through the Balkans and witnessed the mistreatment of the population by Italian troops in Albania.

He took a photograph of the hanging of a dissident Catholic priest by Mussolini's soldiers in Albania.

This picture was published in newspapers around the globe and, along with articles that went public all over Europe, infuriated the Italian authorities.

1928

Back in Denmark, he experienced economic difficulties and in 1928 he ultimately took the decision to leave the country along with his wife Nora and his daughter Aisha who was born earlier that year.

He went to Morocco for the second time, settled down with his family and changed his name to Ali Ahmed el Gheseiri.

1929

Driving through the desert in a 1929 Chevrolet, he left the beaten track to discover the communities and landscape of the desert.

Holmboe was shocked to observe European violence against the indigenous populations of the North African colonies.

In Libya, he witnessed the shocking treatment of the Libyan Muslim population by Italian colonial troops.

Holmboe wrote extensively about what he saw and took photographs as documentation.

His activities did not remain unnoticed by the Italians; In the eastern city of Derna, he was arrested and kicked out of Libya.

In Egypt, he tried to organize resistance against the Italian colonial power in Libya.

However, after the Italian ambassador had informed the British authorities in Egypt, he was arrested again and thrown into prison in Cairo.

After a month, he was sent home to Denmark.

1930

Two years later, in 1930, his wife took the decision to return with her child to Denmark.

Instead of returning, he took a plan to travel from Morocco across the Sahara to reach Egypt.

It was this journey that made him famous.

1931

He is best known for his 1931 book Desert Encounter (Ørkenen Brænder), which exposed the maltreatment of the population the author had witnessed on his journey through Libya and the atrocities committed by the Italian colonial power.

This account is especially valuable for its description of the concentration camps into which Italian colonial powers forced the Bedouin and where "torture, humiliation, and famine" were rife.

Holmboe was murdered on his way to Makkah in Aqaba in October 1931.

Some suspect that Italian intelligence officials, connected to the regime of Benito Mussolini, conspired in his death.

Knud Holmboe was born as the eldest son of a well-known Danish merchant family in Horsens, Jutland.

His younger brother, Vagn Holmboe, went on to become a composer.

Back in Denmark, he produced a book in 1931 based on these travel experiences, entitled Desert Encounter condemning the colonial regimes of North Africa and particularly the Italian colonial government that terrorized the Muslim population in Libya.

The book was published both in Denmark, in many other European countries and the USA, but immediately banned in Fascist Italy.

The Italian colonial powers were outraged at the suggestion that the Muslim population of Libya was being subjected to genocide.

After completing his book, he started on his hajj, to Makkah in May 1931.

Holmboe bought a camel in Amman and travelled to Aqaba (in modern Jordan) where he waited for an entry permit into Ibn Saud’s territory.

On 11 October 1931, he left on his camel towards the Saudi Arabian border spending the night in the vicinity of the Haql oasis.

The next day he was attacked by a local Bedouin tribe on the road between al-Haql and Humayda.

He managed to escape overnight, but was found the next day and shot on 13 October 1931.