Yaqob Beyene

Yaqob Beyene (8 January 1936 – 8 May 2025) was an Ethiopian translator, scholar and academic who lived and worked in Italy.

Career Born in Mai-Berazio, west of Adigrat, in 1936 to a Catholic family of Tigrinya and Saho ethnicity, he briefly attempted an ecclesiastical career at the Ethiopian College of St. Stephen of the Abyssinians, Vatican City, where he specialized in philosophy and psychology.

Yaqob went on to become professor of Tigrinya, Amharic and Ge'ez at L'Orientale. A founding member of ISMEO (International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies), his main interests were Tigrinya language and literature, history, and theology. He died at the Roccadaspide hospital in May 2025, at the age of 89.

Selected works Books (1981)

Translations (1987) (1990) (1993)