- Luiz de Azevedo
Luiz de Azevedo (born [according to probable narration of Franco (Imogem da Vertude em o Noviciado de Coimbra, 359-61)] at
Carrezedo Montenegro , in theDiocese of Braga , in Portugal, in 1573; died inEthiopia in 1634) was a PortugueseJesuit scholar and missionary.Life
He became a Jesuit in 1588, and sailed for the Indies in 1592. In 1605 he began his missionary lwork in Ethiopia, where he remained until his death. Azevedo was called the Apostle Agarus.
Works
He translated into
Chaldaic the commentaries ofFather Toletus on the "Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans " and those ofFrancis Ribera on the "Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews "; the "Canonical Hours", the "Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary", and other works. He is the author of a grammar of the Ethiopic language, and translated into the same tongue the New Testament, a Portuguesecatechism , instructions on the Apostle's Creed, and other books of the same nature. Azevedo concentrated on theGe'ez language, rather thanAmharic , since Ge'ez was the language of literacy. [Leonardo Cohen, "The Jesuit Missionary as Translator (1603-1632)" pp. 16-17, Verena Böll (editor), "Ethiopia And the Missions" (2005)]Notes
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