Author · Ethiopia
Gebre Hiwot Baykedagn
Died in 1919
Gebre Hiwot Baykedagn was born in 1886 near Adwa, in Tigray. Taken to Europe as a child on a German ship, he was brought up by an Austrian family and studied medicine in Berlin. Back in Ethiopia, he was an interpreter at the court of Menelik II, then inspector of the Addis Ababa to Djibouti railway and naggadras, head of customs and trade, at Dire Dawa. He published a first essay in 1912 and died in 1919 at Dire Dawa.
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- EssayState & Economy of Early 20th Century EthiopiaMengistna Yehizb AstedaderGebre Hiwot Baykedagn · 1925Literature