Māḫtama Śǝllāse Walda Masqal
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ማኅተመ፡ ሥላሴ፡ ወልደ፡ መስቀል፡↗ normalized: Māḫtama Śǝllāse Walda Masqal↗ Blātten getā role: title ↗
Birth
He was born at Bulga↗ in 1904.
Period of Activity
He was the most prominent writer and government official during the reign of Ḫāyla Śǝllāse I↗ . He started to work for the government in 1921. Two years later, he was sent abroad by the government for further studies. He went first to Cairo↗ and then France↗ where he studied for six years. He served the Imperial government as a senior aid to ʾAsfā Wasan Ḫāyla Śǝllāse↗ from1933 to 1935, as Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture in 1946, later Minister of Agriculture in 1954, Minister of finance in 1958 and he became Minister of Public Works in 1961.
Death
He died at ʾAddis ʾAbabā↗ in 1978.
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Names
- birth: ማኅተመ፡ ሥላሴ፡ ወልደ፡ መስቀል፡ gez
- Blātten getā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1904
Period of activity: 1921–1978
Death: 1978
Occupation
writer
government official
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Paulos Milkias 2007. ‘Maḫtämä Śǝllase Wäldä Mäsqäl’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 662b–664a.
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Sergew Hable Selassie 1980. ‘Two leading Ethiopian Writers’, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1 (1980), 85–93. page 85-93
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Vanderlinden, J. 1966. ‘An Introduction to the Sources of Ethiopian Law from the 13th to the 20th Century’, Journal of Ethiopian Law, 3/1 (1966), 227–83. page 227-83
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻMāḫtama Śǝllāse Walda Masqalʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 7.3.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6530Mahtama [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: completed the record on 7.3.2017
- 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