Ghebreyesus Hailu

Gebreyesus Hailu was born in 1906 in Italian Eritrea and was trained in the Catholic Church of the colony, then in Rome, at the Ethiopian College of the Vatican, and obtained a doctorate at the Pontifical Urban University. A priest and polyglot intellectual, he entered the service of the Ethiopian state after the war. He was one of the first to make Tigrinya a language of fiction, at a time when almost everything printed in that language was religious or scholarly. He died in 1993.

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