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List Of Ethiopians
This is a list of notable Ethiopians, sorted by the fields for which they are best known. The list includes people born in and residing in Ethiopia, as well as people strongly associated with Ethiopia, and people of significant Ethiopian ancestry. Academics and philosophers * Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam * Mohamed Hikam Sheikh Abdirahman, Islamic scholar * Dereje Agonafer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Arlington * Amsalu Aklilu, lexicographer of Amharic * Hizkias Assefa, professor of conflict studies and consulting mediator * Bahrey, 16th-century monk historian * Gäbre-Heywät Baykädañ (1886-1919), intellectual and reformer who served as treasurer for Emperor Menelik II * Yosef Ben-Jochannan, writer and historian * Eleni Gebre-Medhin, economist * Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize laureate and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University * Getatchew Haile, scholar of the Ge'ez language * Walda Heywat, philosopher * Ephraim Isaac, schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east and northeast, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia has a total area of . As of 2022, it is home to around 113.5 million inhabitants, making it the 13th-most populous country in the world and the 2nd-most populous in Africa after Nigeria. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African and Somali tectonic plates. Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out to the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithic period. Southwestern Ethiopia has been proposed as a possible homeland of the Afroasiatic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walda Heywat
Welde Hiwot (Amharic: ዋልዳ ሄወት) ( fl. 17th century), also called Mitku, was an Ethiopian philosopher. Biography Walda Heywat was the student of Zera Yacob, whose work he continued in his ''Treatise of Walda Heywat'', written in Ge'ez. Walda Heywat was the son of Habta Egziabher (called Habtu), a friend of Zera Yacob in the town of Emfraz, where Zera Yacob spent the second part of his life. Zera Yacob was the teacher of the sons of Habtu and introduced Walda Heywat to his philosophy. It was Walda Heywat for whom Zera Yacob wrote his ''Treatise of Zera Yacob'', describing both his life and his thoughts. Further reading * Enno Littmann Ludwig Richard Enno Littmann (16 September 1875, Oldenburg – 4 May 1958, Tübingen) was a German orientalist. In 1906 he succeeded Theodor Nöldeke as chair of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg. Later on, he served as a profes ...''Philosophi Abessini. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Vol. 18, Scripto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadesse Mamechae
Tadesse Mamecha (born 1941, also known as Tadesse Mamecha Gebre-Tsadik) is an Ethiopian sculptor. His most famous sculpture is "The Afar" which stands in front of the National Theater on Churchill Road. Tadesse Mamecha studied at the Art School in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ... from 1958 to 1962. The continued his studies by attending Leningrad Academy of Arts (U.S.S.R.) from 1963 to 1970 and earned a M.A. in Fine Arts. He returned to Ethiopia and served as a teacher at the Addis Ababa Arts School. His work has been exhibited in Addis Ababa, Sweden and Denmark. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum in Addis Ababa as recently as February 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wosene Worke Kosrof
Wosene Worke Kosrof (born 1955) is an Ethiopian painter and mixed-media artist. Wosene (his professional name) was awarded his B.F.A. from the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa in 1972, and received an M.F.A. from Howard University in 1980. He is best known for his inventive renderings of the Amharic script; and he is the first Ethiopian-born contemporary artist to incorporate these script symbols as a core aesthetic element in fine art paintings. His recognizable "signature" emerges by distorting, elongating, dissecting, and reassembling the symbols as images. Amharic is derived from the ancient language Ge’ez and a major modern language of Ethiopia, is one of the few written systems indigenous to Africa. Wosene likes to examine the relationship between sound and color in art. He says jazz is especially important in his own creative process. Jazz improvisations underlie his compositions, animating them with rhythmic movements and emboldening his masterful use of color. Wos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gebre Kristos Desta
Gebre Kristos Desta (ገብረ ክርስቶስ ደስታ) ( 1932–1981) (also Gebrekristos Desta) was an Ethiopian artist and poet. He is credited with bringing modern art to Ethiopia Both his paintings and poems stirred controversy among his countryfolk. He died young, at 50, as a refugee living in the United States, but despite his short life he transformed Ethiopian art influenced many a young artist. Early life Gebre was born in the town of Harar, the son of a high ranking clergyman Aleka Desta Nego, and was the youngest of six siblings. His father worked for ''Ras'' Makonnen, the governor of Harrar at the time, and was tutor to his son ''Ras'' Tafari Makonnen who was later crowned as Emperor Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia. Gebre Kristos spent his youth on regular activities like playing soccer and volleyball he also spent a great deal of his time under his father's tutelage copying and illustrating religious manuscripts, while assisting his father as an appren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Boghossian
Alexander "Skunder" Boghossian (July 22, 1937 – May 4, 2003) was an Ethiopian-Armenian painter and art teacher. He spent much of his life living and working in the United States. He was one of the first, and by far the most acclaimed, contemporary Black artists from the African continent to gain international attention. Early life Boghossian was born on July 22, 1937, in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, one and half years after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. His mother, Weizero Tsedale Wolde Tekle, was Ethiopian. His father, Kosrof Gorgorios Boghossian, was a colonel in the Kebur Zabagna (Imperial Bodyguard) and of Armenian descent. Boghossian also has a sister, Aster Boghossian, and a half brother, Mulugeta Kassa. Boghossian's father was active in the resistance against the Italian occupation and was imprisoned for seven years when Boghossian was one year old. His mother had set up a new life apart her children and although both he and his sister Aster (Esther) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papier Mâché , British company
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Papier may refer to : *paper in French, Dutch, Afrikaans, Polish or German, word that can be found in the following expressions: **Papier-mâché, a construction material made of pieces of paper stuck together using a wet paste **Papier collé, a painting technique and type of collage **Papier d'Arménie, a perfume coated paper **''Le papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise'', a 2007 French-Cambodian documentary film directed by Rithy Panh **sans papiers, a term for Illegal immigrants in French *Hans-Jürgen Papier (born 1943), a German scholar in Laws, Ex-President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany *Papier (company) Papier is a British online e-commerce brand that sells personalized stationery. The company sells customizable wedding invitations and stationery including, on-demand customized notebooks, and notecards. It trades and has printers in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickaël Bethe-Selassié
Mickaël Bethe-Selassié (1951–2020) was an Ethiopian artist who was characterized by his works and colorful representations often made with large-scale papier-mâché. He is also recognized for works made with Painting, paint and Relief, reliefs. Biography Mickaël Bethe-Selassié was born on 15 February 1951, in Dire Dawa, in a small village in eastern Ethiopia. He was the youngest of three brothers. When he was barely two years old in 1953, his father died, causing his mother to make the decision to move to the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. He lived in the capital at his grandparents' house where he spent a large part of his life where he studied until high school.He lived in France most of his life and this is where he worked after leaving Ethiopia. His mother, who worked at Menelik Hospital, died in 1974. During his stay in France, he had several moments of crisis when he was not clear about his interests, so he was forced to work in small jobs to be able to have some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edemariam Tsega
Edemariam Tsega (; 7 July 1938 – 1 January 2018) was an Ethiopian physician and educator credited with introducing the post-graduate program in internal medicine in Ethiopia. Life and career Early life and education Edemariam Tsega Teshale was born on 7 July 1938, in Gondar, Ethiopia to Aleqa Tsega Teshalé, an Ethiopian Orthodox Church scholar and chief priest (Liqe Kahinat in Amharic) of Begemdir and Simien regions, and Yètèmegnu Mekonnen (1919–2013). He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1961 from Addis Ababa University and a Doctor of Medicine (MDCM) in 1965 from McGill University. He then travelled to the UK to study and graduate from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1969. Prior to 1971, he underwent a rotating internship in internal medicine, and Gastroenterology rotation training at the Montreal General Hospital. Career Returning to Ethiopia In 1971, Tsega went back to Ethiopia and worked at the Faculty of Medicine at Add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zewde Gebre-Sellassie
''Dejazmatch'' Zewde Gebre-Sellassie (12 October 1926 – 15 December 2008) was a prominent nobleman, historian, and former deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia. He was born in the village of Galdu, in the subdistrict of Mecca, to the north-west of Addis Ababa where his father was relegated. Early life Zewde's father was ''Dejazmatch'' Gebre Selassie Baria Gabr (governor of Adwa) and his mother was ''Leult'' Wolete Israel Seyoum. His sister was ''Leult'' Ijigayehou Asfa Wossen, his grandfather was ''Ras'' Seyum Mengesha, and his wife was ''Woizero'' Alem Tsehai Araya. He received his rudimentary education in Addis Ababa under a tutor, and went to school in Jerusalem and Cairo respectively where his mother stayed during the Fascist occupation of Ethiopia. After the liberation, he enrolled at the Haile Selassie I secondary school in Addis Ababa and subsequently joined the University of Exeter, England, where he studied English literature. This was followed by legal training at St. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesfin Woldemariam
Mesfin Woldemariam ( Ge'ez: መስፍን ወልደ ማርያም; 23 April 1930 – 29 September 2020) was an Ethiopian academic and human rights activist. Early life and education Mesfin Woldermariam was born on 23 April 1930 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire. Mesfin received his early education at Teferi Mekonnen School, and was a student of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, receiving ordination as a deacon in 1946. He completed his further education in London in 1951, and won a scholarship to study abroad. He received his BA from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1955 and his MA and Ph.D. from Clark University in 1977 by dissertation rural vulnerability to famine in Ethiopia. Mesfin was professor of geography at Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa University), and for a time was head of the geography department. He was also a senior Fulbright scholar in 1971, 1986 and 1987. He retired in 1991. Political activism Responding to a student petition, on 8 April 2001 Mesfin a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merid Wolde Aregay
Merid Wolde Aregay (1934 or 1935 – 2008) was an Ethiopian historian and a scholar of Ethiopian studies. Merid Wolde Aregay was born in Adwa in 1927 according to the Ethiopian calendar. He earned his BA in 1956 from what was called University College of Addis Ababa, now Addis Ababa University. From there, he was sent to earn an MA in education from Harvard University (1957), then a Master's in history from the University of Chicago (1959). He completed his doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (1971). He learned a variety of languages, both Ethiopian and foreign: "beside Amharic (Tigriñña, Geʽez, some Oromo) and several European languages beside English (Italian, French, Portuguese)". With his knowledge of Portuguese, he was the pre-eminent scholar on the history of the Portuguese Catholic influence and interaction in Ethiopian history. His writings covered a variety of topics, regions, and periods of Ethiopian history. He is also remembered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
