Mikāʾel ʾAragāwi
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ሚካኤል፡ አረጋዊ፡↗ normalized: Mikāʾel ʾAragāwi↗
Birth
He was born at Dambǝyā↗ .
Period of Activity
He was a prominent Ethiopian missionary who worked among the Beta ʾƎsrāʾel↗ during the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century as representative of the London society for promoting Christianity among the Jews. His father gave him at the age of seven to Flad↗ to raise him. Then, Flad↗ sent him to an orphanage in Germany ↗ in 1866. After he completed his education in 1873, he returned to Ethiopia↗ as a missionary, where he served until his death.
Death
1931
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Names
- birth: ሚካኤል፡ አረጋዊ፡ gez
Dates
Birth: 1848–1849
Period of activity: 1850–1931
Death: 1931
Occupation
missionary
Faith
Christianity
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Kaplan, S. 1992. The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (New York, NY–London: New York University Press, 1992).
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Weil, S. 2007. ‘Mikaʾel Arägawi’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 961a–962b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻMikāʾel ʾAragāwiʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 6.12.2016) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS7081Mikael [Accessed: 2024-04-19+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: complete record on 6.12.2016
- 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