Marqorewos
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
መርቆሬዎስ፡ Marqorewos ʾabuna role: title
Birth
He was born in Wambartā↗
Period of Activity
He was a monk, active during the 14th and 15th century. He was the founder of the Eritrean monastery of Dabra Dǝmāḥ↗ in between 1340-1350. He played an important role for the expansion of Christianity mainly in the areas of Gize Mǝdǝr↗ .
Death
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Names
- monastic: መርቆሬዎስ፡ gez
- ʾabuna role: title
Residence
Faith
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Nationality
Ethiopia
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Conti Rossini, C., ed., 1904. Vitae Sanctorum Indigenarum. I. Gadla Marqorēwos seu Acta Sancti Mercurii, tr. C. Conti Rossini, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Aethiopici, II, 22 (Parisiis: E typographeo reipublicae, 1904).
Secondary Bibliography
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Lusini, G. 1993. Studi sul monachesimo eustaziano (secoli XIV-XV), Studi Africanistici, Serie Etiopica, 3 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1993). 110-112
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Lusini, G. 2007. ‘Marqorewos’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 788a–789a.
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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).
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻMarqorewosʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2019-03-27) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6768Marqorew [Accessed: 2024-05-19]
Revisions of the data
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo removed occupation containing St, Saint, bibl, biblical or prophet, added keyword. See https://github.com/BetaMasaheft/Documentation/issues/1104 on 27.3.2019
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 19.10.2016
- 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