[KS] Who was Mr. Tscho Mago? (Berlin 1911)

[Frank Hoffmann]

Hi again:

One more question -- and just anything that comes to mind is much 
appreciated, including speculations and hints.

USC's Korean American Digital Archive has a section "An Ch'ang-ho. 
Letters, 1909-1911," and in here are a couple of communications and 
other writings that are from Berlin or relate to An Ch'ang-ho's August 
1911 stay in Berlin. Summer 1911 is when he returned to the US, after 
the Sinminhoe was disbanded by the colonial government and I think he 
got a jail sentence and was on the wanted list (don't quote me on 
that). So, he fled via Manchuria, Russia, Germany (Berlin), to then 
board a ship in London. It seems certain that An only stayed a few days 
in Berlin (August 20 to 24, 1911). Korean student there, the only one, 
had put him up in a very exclusive small pension that was specialized 
on English speaking guests. Anyway, among the USC docs is a letter by a 
German doctor dated July 29, 1911 -- and that is a time when An stayed 
still in St. Petersburg with other Sinminhoe members who were exiled 
there. That letter -- here is the top part of the first page ...
  http://tinyurl.com/berlin1911
... is the doctor's referral to another specialist. The patient being 
referred is named
  Mr. Tscho Mago
and is described as a Korean in his early 30s on his way to the US via 
London (which would apply to An also) and on the second page as an 
affluent man. Now, apart from An Ch'ang-ho, there were two other 
Koreans traveling through Berlin at the very time An stayed there. One 
of them was Chang T'aek-sang whom I mentioned in my last posting, but 
he and his friend Ch'oe, both also having come via St. Petersburg, were 
only around 18 years old. So that description would not fit.

I therefore wonder who that Mr. Tscho Mago was, and why would a letter 
and also a prescription dated a good 20 days before An's arrival in 
Berlin be in An Ch'ang-ho's or his family's possession?

Anyone has the slightest idea?


Best,
Frank