Workneh Eshete or Azaj Warqnah Ishete, also known as Charles Martin (21 October 1864 – 9 October 1952) was an Ethiopian physician and politician. He was the first Ethiopian educated as a medical doctor and led the Ethiopian diplomatic mission to the United States in 1927, which negotiated a contract to build a dam on the upper Abay River;[1] and, beginning in 1934, he served as Ethiopia's Minister to the United Kingdom.[2]
^Harold G. Marcus, Haile Sellassie I: The formative years (Lawrenceville: Red Sea, 1996), p. 87
^Bahru Zewde, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), pp. 41f
WorknehEshete or Azaj Warqnah Ishete, also known as Charles Martin (21 October 1864 – 9 October 1952) was an Ethiopian physician and politician. He was...
Workneh is an Ethiopian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: WorknehEshete (1864–1952), Ethiopian medical doctor and intellectual...
(1863–1946), U.S. military officer, governor and Representative from Oregon WorknehEshete (1864-1952), Ethiopian doctor and diplomat who took the name Charles...
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general and noble. Wolde Giorgis Wolde Yohannes, Minister of the pen WorknehEshete, surgeon and diplomat Wossen Seged, ruler of Shewa Wube Haile Maryam...
(1889-1913) that the first foreign-trained Ethiopian medical doctor, Hakim WorknehEshete, began practicing medicine in Addis Ababa. Throughout the 1990s, the...
Shewan Ras and a number of intellectuals who included the sons of Hakim WorknehEshete and Heruy Welde Sellase, and Yilma Deressa. Its chairman was Alemework...
was recalled to takeover Hakim WorknehEshete's job as governor of the lucrative Chercher region upon Hakim Workneh's departure to London representing...
Selassie was an agronomist. Her mother Suzi Workneh was daughter of the physician and diplomat WorknehEshete. After attending the Sandford English School...
language. Her father was Ethiopian first Western educated medical doctor WorknehEshete During the occupation, his uncle and guardian Lij Seifu Mikael was captured...
Fitawrari Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam and later in Ethiopia with Hakim WorknehEshete also known as Dr. Charles Martin who was a good friend to his father...
Goessel, Kansas (d. 2020) Ethiopian Minister to the United Kingdom WorknehEshete appealed to the British public for at least £2 million to continue the...
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