Yoḥanni
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ዮሐኒ፡↗ normalized: Yoḥanni↗ ʾabbā role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a monk of medieval time born in Tamben↗ where he built 42 churches. His life is known from his Gadla Yoḥanni za-Dabra ʿAśā. He was born from a mother who was a wife of a certain šum role: title ↗ of Tamben↗ . Additional information of him is also evoked in a number of hymnological compositions.
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Names
- birth: ዮሐኒ፡ gez
- ʾabbā role: title
Occupation
abbot
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Basset, R. 1884. ‘Vie d’Abbā Yohanni. Texte éthiopien, traduction française avec une introduction’, Bulletin de correspondance africaine, 3 (1884), 433–453.
Secondary Bibliography
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Sokolinskaia, E. 2014. ‘Yoḥanni of Däbrä ʿAśa’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 85b–87a.
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Kaplan, S. 1984. The monastic holy man and the christianization of early Solomonic Ethiopia, Studien zur Kulturkunde, 73 (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984). page 78, 133
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