Aba Gorgorios engraving by Christopher Elias Heiss, Augsburg, 1691[1][2]
Abba Gorgoryos (Ge'ez: አባ ጎርጎርዮስ; 1595 – 1658) was an Ethiopian priest from Amhara tribe and lexicographer of noble origin.[3][4][5][6] He is famous for co-authoring encyclopedias with his friend and companion Hiob Ludolf in two Ethiopian languages, Amharic and Ge'ez, both in Ge'ez script.[7]
^College Library, Special Collections. "Hiob Ludolf, Historia Aethiopica (Frankfurt, 1681)". St John's College, Cambridge. Accessed 29 July 2017.
^Prichard, James Cowles (1851), Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, vol. 2 (4th ed.), London: Houlston and Stoneman, p. 139.
^"Faith Over Color: Ethio-European Encounters and Discourses in the Early-Modern Era. Philadelphia: Temple University Electronic Theses and Dissertations". cdm2458-01.cdmhost.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
^Uhlig, Siegbert. 2005. "Gorgoryos." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha: Vol. 2, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 855-856. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
^Haberland, Eike. 1986. Three Hundred Years of Ethiopian-German Academic Collaboration. Frankfurt, Germany: Frobenius Institute, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and Steiner.
^Flemming, Johannes. 1890-1891. "Hiob Ludolf: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der orientalischen Philologie." Beiträge zur Assyriologie und vergleichenden semitischen Sprachwissenschaft I, II:537-582; 63-110.
^Smidt, Wolbert G.C. (2015). "Gorgoryos and Ludolf: The Ethiopian and German Fore-Fathers of Ethiopian Studies: An Ethiopian scholar's 1652 visit to Thuringia" (PDF). ITYOP̣IS: Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-10.
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