Kabbada Mikāʾel
Solomon Gebreyes
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Names
birth: ከበደ፡ ሚካኤል፡↗ normalized: Kabbada Mikāʾel↗
Birth
He was born at ʾAnkobar↗ in1914 or 1915.
Period of Activity
He was one of the most prominent Ethiopian authors of the 20th century. He began his public career after the liberation in 1941. From 1945-1957, he was employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Minsitry of education, and received the high level positions of Director of the National Library of Ethiopia, General Director of the Ministry of Education, and Vice Minister of Posts. In 1954, he accompanied ʾaṣe role: title ↗ on official tour to United States of America↗ , and published the account about the journey. He was a member and the head of the Antiquities Department of the Goverment, took an active part in establishing Archaeological Museum, and was a member of the editorial board of the Annales d'Ethiopie. He was Ethiopia's ambassador extraordinary to the Vatican City↗ at the opening of the Second Ecumenical council in 1962. After the revolution of 1974 Kabbada Mikāʾel had to leave public service. His houses were confiscated, and he lived in hotles in ʾAddis ʾAbabā↗ in misery till his death. He was married but had no children.
Death
1998
Author of
- Bǝrhanä ḫǝllina.
- Tarikǝnna mǝssale.
- Yätǝnbit qäṭäro.
- Ato Bälaynäh wäym yäqǝṭat maʿbäl.
- Anibal.
- Akǝʿab.
- Talallaq säwočč.
- Tǝllǝqu Ǝskǝndǝr.
- Yäʿaläm tarik.
- Ǧaṗan ǝndämǝn säläṭṭänäčč.
- .
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Names
- birth: ከበደ፡ ሚካኤል፡ gez
Dates
Birth: 1914–1915
Period of activity: 1941–1974
Death: 1998
Occupation
writer
director, ambassador
Residence
ʾAddis Ababā
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Balashova, G. 2007. ‘Käbbädä Mikaʾel’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 315a–317b.
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Bahru Zewde 2002. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century, Eastern African Studies (Oxford; Athens, OH; Addis Ababa: James Currey; Ohio University Press; Addis Ababa University Press, 2002).
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Shiferaw Bekele 2000. ‘The Study of Amharic Lietrature’, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 32/2 (2000), 27–73. page 27-73
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻKabbada Mikāʾelʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-02-20) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS5814Kabbada [Accessed: 2024-05-16]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: complete record on 20.2.2017
- 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