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Orphaned as a child, brought up in a harem and then sold at a white slave auction, Florence was only in her early teens when she was ‘liberated’ by a middle-aged English adventurer and explorer who took her with him into deepest Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Florence von Sass (Sass Flóra) was born in Hungary in the early 1840s.
Known for. an orphan who became a slave, explored the Nile, and died an English lady. Spouse. Sir Samuel Baker. Florence, Lady Baker, or Florence Barbara Marie Finnian: or Florica Maria Sas; or Maria Freiin von Sas; or Barbara Maria Szász (6 August 1841 – 11 March 1916) was a Hungarian-born British explorer.
Lady Florence Baker, née Flora Barbara Maria von Szász, or Sass. Born 6 August 1841 in Nagyenyed, then in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Aiud in present-day Romania. Claim to fame. The details...
British explorer. Also known as: Florence von Sass. Learn about this topic in these articles: exploration of East African lakes. In John Hanning Speke. …Nile explorers Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass (who later became Baker’s wife). Speke and Grant told them of another lake said to lie west of Lake Victoria.
(1841-1916), Traveller in Africa; second wife of Sir Samuel White Baker. Sitter in 5 portraits. Born Florence Barbara Maria Finnin von Sass, possibly in Romania, her Eastern European parents were killed when she was seven. At seventeen she was about to be sold in an Ottoman slave market in Hungary when an English widower, Sam Baker, rescued her.
Name variations: Barbara Maria Szasz; Florence Barbara Maria Szasz Baker; Florence or Florenz Finnian von Sass; Florence von Sass-Baker. Born Florence Barbara Maria Finnian von Sass (some sources claim she was born Barbara Maria Szasz), 1845, in Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania); died 1916 in England; m.
Visit the Sympathy Shop. Florence M. Sass Marysville Florence M. Sass, age 95, of Marysville, passed away unexpectedly September 20, 2012. She was born March 13, 1917 in China Twp. to...
