Yoftāhe Nǝguśe
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ዮፍታሔ፡ ንጉሤ፡↗ normalized: Yoftāhe Nǝguśe↗ qaññ getā role: title ↗
Birth
He was born in ደብረ፡ ገነት፡ ኤልያስ፡↗ between 1892-1893.
Period of Activity
He was a prolific writer with a pronounced background in traditional church education and a pioneer of Ethiopian theatre and Amharic drama. He was first appointed as mač̣ane role: title ↗ and qaññgetā role: title ↗ , later the head of Dǝmaḥ Gännät ʿAlämayyähu Šašu↗ . In 1917/1918 he became dabtarā role: title ↗ and later ʾaggāfāri role: title ↗ of Dabra Gannat ʾAbbo↗ . In 1923/24, he was employed as an Amharic teacher at Mǝnilǝk↗ Secondary School where he started his first literary works.
Death
He died in ʾAddis ʾAbabā↗ between1946-1947.
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Names
- birth: ዮፍታሔ፡ ንጉሤ፡ gez
- qaññ getā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1892–1893
Period of activity: 1906–1947
Death: 1946–1947
Occupation
writer
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Zabolotskikh, M. 2014. ‘Yoftahe Nǝguśe’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 66b–67a.
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Bahru Zewde 2002. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century, Eastern African Studies (Oxford; Athens, OH; Addis Ababa: James Currey; Ohio University Press; Addis Ababa University Press, 2002).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻYoftāhe Nǝguśeʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 21.2.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS10369Yoftahe [Accessed: 2024-04-20+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 21.2.2017
- 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