Manuel de Almeida
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Manuel de Almeida | |
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Born | Manuel de Almeida 1580 |
Died | 1646 (aged 65–66) |
Nationality | Portuguese |
Occupation(s) | Missionary, traveller |
Known for | Traveller and builder of churches and monasteries in Ethiopia and Eritrea. |
Manuel de Almeida (sometimes Manoel de Almeida, 1580–1646) was a native of
In 1622, Almeida was selected by the general of his order as
He was well received by Emperor Susenyos, but his successor
Almeida wrote a history of Ethiopia, Historia de Etiopía a Alta ou Abassia, which drew on his own experiences as well as the writings of previous missionaries like Pedro Páez. The Historia was never published during Almeida's lifetime; but an abridgment and partial revision of Almeida's work by Baltazar Téllez was printed at Coimbra in 1660; an anonymous translation of Tellez's work into English appeared in 1710. Selections from Historia work were translated into English by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford and published in Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954).
See also
- Ethiopian Studies
References
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Altic, Mirela. "Notes From the book Encounters in the New World: Jesuit Cartography of the Americas". degruyter. University of Chicago Press 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
Ethiopia by the Portuguese Jesuit Manoel de. Almeida, which is included in his account Historia de Etiopía a Alta ou Abassia, later published, pp. 331-394
- ^ Baltazar Téllez, The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia, 1710 (LaVergue: Kessinger, 2010), pp. 213-221
- ^ Jerónimo Lobo, The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo, translated by Donald M. Lockhart (London: Hakluyt Society, 1984), pp. 259 n. 2, 292 n. 1
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Rose, Hugh James (1857). "Almeida, Manuel de". A New General Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1 AA–ANS. London: B. Fellowes et al. p. 356.
Further reading
- E. Denison Ross, "Almeida's 'History of Ethiopia': Recovery of the Preliminary Matter", Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, 2 (1923), pp. 783–804