Samuel Gobat
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
Samuel Gobat
Birth
1799
Period of Activity
He was a famous Protestant missionary in ኢትዮጵያ↗ in the 19th century. He started his career in 1825, when he was sent to London↗ , at the age of 22 for a mission to ኢትዮጵያ↗ . As part of his preparation to ኢትዮጵያ↗ , Gobat studied Gǝʿǝz and also learnt Amharic from an Ethiopian monk. He arrived in 1830 in ʿAddigrat↗ together with his colleague Christian Kugler where they were cordially received by the ruler of Tǝgrāy↗ , Sabāgādis Waldu . Then in March 1830, he travelled to Gondar↗ in order to see the country and distribute the Amharic Bibles the missionaries had brought with them. He committed himself to persuading the priests and lay people of the need to reform the Orthodox Church. The reform he advocated comprised the institutionalizing of theological education, the renewal of the establishment of several Ethiopian held bishoprics, the removal of images from the Ethiopian churches and the abolition of the veneration of saints. He left for Gondar↗ in 1830 and returned to ʿAdwā↗ , Tǝgrāy↗ where the circumstances were less favourable for his mission. When his health deteriorated during 1832, he returned to London↗ . There he managed for his plan to renew missionary activity in ኢትዮጵያ↗ . In 1846, he was chosen as bishop for the newly established Anglican Lutheran bishopric of Jerusalem↗ which included ኢትዮጵያ↗ as well. Thus, he was asked by Ali Alula in 1850 to supervise the Ethiopian convent in Jerusalem↗ .
Death
1879
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Names
- Samuel Gobat
Dates
Birth: 1799
Period of activity: 1825–1879
Death: 1879
Occupation
Missionary
Faith
Protestantism
Nationality
notSpecified
Text Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Text Bibliography
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Gobat, S. 1834. Journal of a Three Years’ Residence in Abyssinia, in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society (London: Hatchard, 1834).
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Gobat, S. 1834. Journal d’un Séjour en Abyssinie, pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832 (Paris – Genève: Chez J.J. Risler, Rue de l’Oratoire, No. 6 – Chez Mme Suzanne Guers, 1834).
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Gobat, S. 1884. Evangelischer Bischof in Jerusalem: sein Leben und Wirken meist nach seinen eigenen Aufzeichnungen (Basel: C.F. Spitteler, 1884).
Secondary Bibliography
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Strebel, B. 2005. ‘Gobat’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 818b–819b.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻSamuel Gobatʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-09-09) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4722Gobat [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 9.9.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor