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Mahteme Sellassie

Died in 1978

Mahteme Sellassie Wolde Meskel was born on 30 October 1904 in Bulga, in Shewa, the son of the imperial secretary Wolde Meskel. Educated in the schools of the Church, then in the country's modern institutions and in France, he was interned in Italy during the occupation. Director general of Agriculture in 1946, minister of that department in 1954, then of Finance, Education and Justice, he also published in English a study of Ethiopian land tenure. A research centre of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies bears his name. He died in 1978.

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