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
Enfraz or Infraz (), also called ''Guba'e'' (), or ''Guzara'' () is a historic town and district in northern Ethiopia. Located in the mountainous area overlooking the northeast shore of Lake Tana in the North Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, it ...
, 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
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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, Scriptores Aethiopici'' Presses Républicaines, 1904. Contains the Ge'ez text of Walda Heywat's treatise.
*
Claude Sumner, ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. II: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: Text and Authorship'', Commercial Printing Press, 1976.
* Claude Sumner, ''Ethiopian Philosophy, vol. III: The Treatise of Zara Yaecob and Walda Hewat: An Analysis'', Commercial Printing Press, 1978.
* Claude Sumner. ''Classical Ethiopian Philosophy'', Commercial Printing Press, 1985. Contains an English translation of Walda Heywat's treatise and four other texts.
* Claude Sumner, "The Light and the Shadow: Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century," in Wiredu and Abraham, eds., ''A Companion to African Philosophy'', 2004.
References
External links
Ethiopian Philosophy- A blog devoted to Zera Yacob and Walda Heywat
17th-century Ethiopian people
17th-century philosophers
Ethiopian non-fiction writers
Ethiopian philosophers
1599 births
1692 deaths
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