Samson Cerfberr of Medelsheim (born at Strasburg about 1780; committed suicide at Paris, 1826) 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.
Cerfberr joined the Ottoman army as a mercenary, and converted into Islam, adopting the name Ibrahim Mansur Effendi.
At the end of the war he wandered throughout the East, sojourned for a time in Austria and in Nafplio,[1] and in the period of 1816–19 served in the army of Ali Pasha of Ioannina.
[2] On his return home Cerfberr published a work entitled Mémoires sur la Grèce et l'Albanie Pendant le Gouvernement d'Ali-Pacha (1826).