Zannab
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ዘነብ፡↗ normalized: Zannab↗ ʾalaqā, dabtarā, Ṣaḥāfe tǝʾǝzāz role: title ↗
Birth
He was born at Yǝfāt↗
Period of Activity
He was the secretary of ʾaṣe role: title Tewodros II↗ , a missionary and writer. He was converted to Protestantism in 1858 by the influence of the missionaries, without officially leaving, however, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He was also a tutor of the son of ʾaṣe role: title Tewodros II↗ , daǧǧāzmāč role: title ʾAlamāyyahu Tewodros↗ . He was succeeded by ʾalaqā role: title ʾƎngǝdā Warq↗ as a chief scribe.
Death
1876
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Names
- birth: ዘነብ፡ gez
- ʾalaqā, dabtarā, Ṣaḥāfe tǝʾǝzāz role: title
Dates
Birth: 1825
Period of activity: 1855–1876
Death: 1876
Occupation
chronicler
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Editions Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Editions Bibliography
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Moreno, M. M. 1942. ‘La cronaca di Re Teodoro attribuita al dabtarà « Zaneb »’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 2/2 (1942), 143–180 (DOI: 10.2307/41460148).
Secondary Bibliography
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Smidt, W. 2014. ‘Zännäb’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 140b–142a.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻZannabʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 14.2.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS10603Zannab [Accessed: 2024-05-06+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: some corrections on 14.2.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 15.11.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor