Gabra Ḥannā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ገብረ፡ ሐና፡↗ normalized: Gabra Ḥannā↗ alt: ገብረ፡ ሐና፡ ገብረ፡ ማርያም፡↗ normalized: Gabra Ḥannā Gabra Māryām↗ ʾalaqā role: title ↗
Birth
He was born at Fogarā↗ between 1805-1821.
Period of Activity
He was a traditional scholar, the popular hero of innumerable Amharic jokes and humorous stories. He received a thorough church eduction and he held different positions as church administrator, expert in chronology and traditional law (Fǝtḥa nagaśt), teacher and advisor. Gabra Ḥannā is said to have penned several religious books; however, none of them has ever been published.
Death
1902-1916
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Names
- birth: ገብረ፡ ሐና፡ gez
- alt: ገብረ፡ ሐና፡ ገብረ፡ ማርያም፡
- ʾalaqā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1805–1821
Period of activity: 1800–1899
Death: 1902–1916
Occupation
scholar
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Mattausch, B. 2005. ‘Gäbrä Ḥanna’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 610a–611a.
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Elsābeṭ Gassasa 1974. በአለቃ፡ ገብረ፡ ሐና፡ የሚነገሩ፡ ቀልዶች (Baʾalaqā Gabra Ḥannā yamminnagaru qaldočč, "Jokes Told by ʾalaqā Gabra Ḥannā’), Addis Ababa University (1974).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻGabra Ḥannāʼ, 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/PRS4231Gabraha [Accessed: 2024-04-26+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Corrected name id on 9.10.2017
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 27.2.2017
- 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
Dorothea Reule, contributor