Gabra ʾƎgziʾabǝḥer ʾElyās
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ገብረ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ኤልያስ፡↗ normalized: Gabra ʾƎgziʾabǝḥer ʾElyās↗
Birth
He was born at Ǝnṭoṭṭo↗ in1892.
Period of Activity
He was a painter, poet, polemicist and historian. He received a traditional church education at the age of five in Ǝnṭoṭṭo Raguʾel↗ . After he attended traditional eduaction in various churches, he became a teacher of qǝne. Then, he worked as assistant head in the customs and later as a caligrapher and illustrator at the Ministry of Pen. He was also a court historian writing the royal chronicle for the period 1908-1934 covering the reigns of lǝg role: title ↗ and Zawditu↗ .
Death
He died at Nazareth↗ in 1969.
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Names
- birth: ገብረ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ ኤልያስ፡ gez
Dates
Birth: 1892
Period of activity: 1912–1969
Death: 1969
Occupation
artist
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Molvaer, R. K. 2005. ‘Gäbrä Ǝgziʾabǝḥer Elyas’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 607b–608b.
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Pankhurst, R. 1989. ‘The Battle of Adwa (1896) as Depicted by Traditional Ethiopian Artists’, Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, (1989), 81–83.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻGabra ʾƎgziʾabǝḥer ʾElyāsʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 14.3.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4219Gabraeg [Accessed: 2024-04-20+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 14.3.2017
- 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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Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor