Fantā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ፈንታ፡↗ normalized: Fantā↗ dabtarā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was known to the missionary of Samuel Gobat↗ and the travellers Pierre Victor Adolphe Ferret↗ and Joseph Germain Galinier↗ and particularly as correspondent of the French traveller and scholar Antoine d’Abbadie [d’Arrast]↗ . As a secretary at the court of Śahla Śǝllāse↗ in 1848 he wrote several letters to Samuel Gobat↗ , then Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem↗ , seeking his intervention on behalf of the Ethiopian monks in the Holy city. Between 1853 and 1854he wrote five letters to Antoine d’Abbadie [d’Arrast]↗ containing valuable news about contemporary Ethiopian Politics.
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Names
- birth: ፈንታ፡ gez
- dabtarā role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1830–1860
Occupation
secretary
Faith
EOTC
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Crummey, D. 2005. ‘Fänta’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 490b.
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Gobat, S. 1834. Journal of a Three Years’ Residence in Abyssinia, in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society (London: Hatchard, 1834).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻFantāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 9.10.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS3976Fanta [Accessed: 2024-04-19+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 9.10.2017
- 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
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor