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Alaqa Taye Gabra Mariam
Aleqa Taye Gabra Mariam (Ge'ez: አለቃ ታየ ገብረ ማርያም ālek’a taye gebire mariyami, March 1861 – August 1924) was an Ethiopian scholar, teacher, writer and preacher.
Taye was born in Kamkam Qaroda, Yifag in the Begemder province in March 1861. He initially began his education in a church school but this was interrupted when his father and uncle left the province and his mother died in an epidemic in 1867. Taye wandered in search of his father and uncle and reached as far as Massawa, soon afterwards enrolling in a Swedish Evangelical mission school in nearby Monkulu in 1874. The mission did not employ Taye for translating and teaching work until 1886. He would later return to his home province in 1875. Taye's education allowed him to become proficient in the Ge'ez language as well as the teachings of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Taye returned to Monkulu in 1880 and became a teacher as well as a preacher for the next 20 years. He had gained a reputation for learning by the time he returned to Begemder in 1889.
During the 1890s Taye was working on a Grammar Book (Matshafa Sawasew) which was eventually published in Monkullo in 1897. The book was written in Amharic and explained the grammar of Ge'ez and also included a Ge'ez vocabulary with Amharic translation.
Ras Mangasha Atikem, the governor of Bagemder, was impressed by Taye's skill and his book Matshafa Sawasew and recommended him to Emperor Menelik II. The emperor commissioned Taye to write a history of Ethiopia and would later award him with a gold medal. Taye's first published historical work was a social history of Ethiopia in 1922 titled Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia"). Taye also wrote a general history of Ethiopia but died before it could be published.
Taye was sent by Menelik II in 1905 to Germany on the request of Wilhelm II, who wanted an Ethiopian scholar to catalogue Ethiopian manuscripts and teach Ge'ez at the University of Berlin. Menelik may have done this partly because of his own interest in recovering rare Ethiopian books from Germany. Taye would bring back around 130 Ethiopian books on his return from Germany.
Alaqa Taye helped contribute two books to the New York Public Library on Abyssinian children's games and folk stories.
Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia") was published in 1922 and was Taye's first published historical work. The book was reprinted with some changes multiple times over the years, in 1927, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1965 and 1971, with its first English translation appearing in 1987 based on the first edition. It is largely a collection of legends and folk histories on the different peoples in Ethiopia. The book used several Ethiopian and European sources and was referred to by Heruy Wolde Selassie in one of his books. It was intended to be part of a larger work which looked at the history of the world, the history of Ethiopia and then finally the history of the Ethiopian kings, but this was interrupted by the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935.
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Aleqa Taye Gabra Mariam (Ge'ez: አለቃ ታየ ገብረ ማርያም ālek’a taye gebire mariyami, March 1861 – August 1924) was an Ethiopian scholar, teacher, writer and preacher.
Taye was born in Kamkam Qaroda, Yifag in the Begemder province in March 1861. He initially began his education in a church school but this was interrupted when his father and uncle left the province and his mother died in an epidemic in 1867. Taye wandered in search of his father and uncle and reached as far as Massawa, soon afterwards enrolling in a Swedish Evangelical mission school in nearby Monkulu in 1874. The mission did not employ Taye for translating and teaching work until 1886. He would later return to his home province in 1875. Taye's education allowed him to become proficient in the Ge'ez language as well as the teachings of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
Taye returned to Monkulu in 1880 and became a teacher as well as a preacher for the next 20 years. He had gained a reputation for learning by the time he returned to Begemder in 1889.
During the 1890s Taye was working on a Grammar Book (Matshafa Sawasew) which was eventually published in Monkullo in 1897. The book was written in Amharic and explained the grammar of Ge'ez and also included a Ge'ez vocabulary with Amharic translation.
Ras Mangasha Atikem, the governor of Bagemder, was impressed by Taye's skill and his book Matshafa Sawasew and recommended him to Emperor Menelik II. The emperor commissioned Taye to write a history of Ethiopia and would later award him with a gold medal. Taye's first published historical work was a social history of Ethiopia in 1922 titled Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia"). Taye also wrote a general history of Ethiopia but died before it could be published.
Taye was sent by Menelik II in 1905 to Germany on the request of Wilhelm II, who wanted an Ethiopian scholar to catalogue Ethiopian manuscripts and teach Ge'ez at the University of Berlin. Menelik may have done this partly because of his own interest in recovering rare Ethiopian books from Germany. Taye would bring back around 130 Ethiopian books on his return from Germany.
Alaqa Taye helped contribute two books to the New York Public Library on Abyssinian children's games and folk stories.
Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia") was published in 1922 and was Taye's first published historical work. The book was reprinted with some changes multiple times over the years, in 1927, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1965 and 1971, with its first English translation appearing in 1987 based on the first edition. It is largely a collection of legends and folk histories on the different peoples in Ethiopia. The book used several Ethiopian and European sources and was referred to by Heruy Wolde Selassie in one of his books. It was intended to be part of a larger work which looked at the history of the world, the history of Ethiopia and then finally the history of the Ethiopian kings, but this was interrupted by the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935.