Hezekiah

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Hezekiah or Hezqeyas (* before 1789; † September 13, 1813 ) was from July 26, 1789 to January 1794 Negus Negest ( Emperor ) of Ethiopia and a member of the Solomon dynasty . He was the son of Iyasu III.

Hezekiah and his captains advanced against Gonder and the ruling Emperor Tekle Giyorgis . At that time he was busy putting down riots in several regions. When Tekle Giyorgis saw Hezekiah's army approaching, he turned back and fled. With the help of Ras Ali , Hezekiah came to the throne.

During the first years of his reign, Hezekiah provided shelter for Selasse , who had attacked Tigray . Hezekiah also advanced against Sannaer , which he plundered and devastated. Despite these signs of military strength, his power was very limited. The royal chronicle records that at the end of his reign, one of the warlords, Dejazmach Wolda Gabrael , entered Gonder and, without the permission of the Emperor Hezekiah, made appeals and dismissals. A few months later the angry Rittmeister Asserat came to the capital to drive the Dejazmach away. As the battle broke out, his men set fire to Gan Takal, part of the royal fortress .

The traveler Henry Salt notes that when he visited the northern part of Ethiopia in 1809/1810, Hezekiah was still alive.

The Frankfurt scholar Eduard Rüppell brought back several manuscripts from one of his trips to Ethiopia, which found their place in today's Frankfurt University Library . One of the manuscripts, a psalter , is the only illustration showing King David playing the harp with the emperor at his feet.

literature

  1. ^ Nathaniel Pearce : The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce , JJ Halls. ed., London, 1831, Volume 1 p. 141
  2. ^ EA Wallis Budge: A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia . 1928 Anthropological Publications (Oosterhout, The Netherlands 1970), p. 479.
  3. ↑ quoted in Richard PK Pankhurst: History of Ethiopian Towns . Franz Steiner Verlag (Wiesbaden 1982), p. 177.
  4. ^ Henry Salt: A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country . 1814 Frank Cass (London 1967), p. 474.
  5. ^ Valuable manuscripts again in Frankfurt in: FAZ of August 27, 2011, p. 43
predecessor Office successor
Tekle Giyorgis I. Emperor of Ethiopia
1789 - 1794 		Tekle Giyorgis I.
personal data
SURNAME Hezekiah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hezqeyas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Negus Negest (Emperor) of Ethiopia (July 26, 1789 to January 1794)
DATE OF BIRTH before 1789
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1813