Tasfā Ṣǝyon
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ተስፋ፡ ጽዮን፡↗ normalized: Tasfā Ṣǝyon↗ monastic: ጴጥሮስ፡↗ normalized: Ṗeṭros↗ Petrus Aethiops↗ ʾabbā, Professor role: title ↗
Birth
1508-1510
Period of Activity
He was an Ethiopian monk renowned for his activity in Rome↗ at Santo Stefano dei Mori↗ in 1536. He was the most learned medieval Ethiopian scholar and an expert in Amharic, Gǝʿǝz, Arabic, Italian and Latin. He played a pivotal role in the two-year long preparation of one of the most important Ethiopic Testamentum Novum which was printed in two volumes. Very little is known about his career and education in Ethiopia↗ . But he was born from noble parents and his life was severely troubled by the Muslim wars waged by ʾAḥmad↗ against the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. He spent a few years as a pilgrim in Jerusalem↗ and then he moved to Rome↗ where he lived for 12 years.
Death
1550-1552
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Names
- birth: ተስፋ፡ ጽዮን፡ gez
- monastic: ጴጥሮስ፡ gez
- Petrus Aethiops la
- ʾabbā, Professor role: title
Dates
Birth: 1508–1510
Period of activity: 1520–1552
Death: 1550–1552
Occupation
monk, scholar
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. and G. Fiaccadori 2014. ‘Täsfa Ṣǝyon’, in A. Bausi and S. Uhlig, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, V (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014), 525a–528b.
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