Flad (Bibliography)

(1) Sources

1. Unpublished material
Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt (Switzerland):
  • “Landbeschreibung nach M. Flad und Dr. Krapf”. Description of Abyssinia by Flad and Krapf during their journey in 1855. Ref. PA 653a D. 2.1
  • “Joh. Martin Flad”. Letters, etc., 1857‒61. Ref. PA 653a D. 3.2
  • “Briefe betreffend Station Cairo”. Letter by Flad w/re mission station in Cairo, 1858. Ref. PA 653a E. 3.4
  • “Flad, M. J., Djenna”. Letter to Bishop Gobat (Jerusalem), 1862. Ref. PA 653a XXX 3.63
  • “(Flad), Pauline, Kairo, Genda, Gaffat”. Letters by Mrs Flad to Mrs Gobat (Jerusalem), 1858‒64. Ref. PA 653a XXXI 1.84
  • “J. M. Flad”. Letters from Korntal, 1869‒73. Ref. PA 653a Q. 1.1
  • “Korrespondenz von Missionar J.M. Flad mit C.F. Spittler über den Amharischen Bibeldruck (Abessinien)”. Letters on printing Amharic Bibles, 1883‒84. Ref. PA 773a 02.02.08
  • “[fehlt] / Flad. G. [= J.] M., Kornthal”. Letters to Spittler, 1869‒84. Ref. PA 653a V. 312 [The letters seem to be lost]
The National Archives, Kew (London, UK):
  • Letters by Joh. Martin and Pauline Flad. Abyssinia 1866. Memo. by Col. Merewether. (British Captives. Bound: Abyssinia 4. Ref. FO 881/1466)
Papers of The Church’s Ministry among the Jews (Weston Library, Oxford, UK):
Bible Society Archive and Library (Cambridge Univ., UK):
Archives in Germany:
  • Search the Kalliope database for “Flad, Johann Martin”
SEM Archives (Sweden):
Vienna University (Austria):
  • Letters from Flad to Professor Simon Leo Reinisch. Korntal, 18 Oct. 1885 and 6 July 1893.
2. Languages of Ethiopia

Psalterium Davidis: Aethiopice et Amharice / መጽሐፍ መዝሙረት ዘዳዊት. Basel (Switzerland): C. F. Spittler, 1872. [Google Books; reprints 1902, 1904, 1913]

Dr. Barth’s Bible-Stories, translated into Amharic by J.M. Flad /
ሁለት ጊዜ አምሳ ሁለት ታሪክ ከብሉይና ካዲስ [= አዲስ] ኪዳን [Twice 52 stories from the Old and New Testament]. 2nd edition. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1872. [Digitale Sammlungen]

  • 3rd edition. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1875. [Hamburg]
  • 4th edition. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1892. [UB Tübingen]

_ _ _ / The Amharic geography. [2nd ed. of Isenberg’s book?]. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1872. [59 p.; available in Paris]

_ _ _ / The Messianic prophecies in Ethiopic and Amharic, with some additional passages from the ancient prophets, by J. M. Flad. 2nd edition. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1875. [35 p.; available in Paris] 

_ _ _ / Proofs from the Old Testament that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is the Son of God. Translated by J.M. Flad, missionary to the Falashas … 3rd revised edition. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1875. [64 p.; available in Paris]

_ _ _ / Helps to self-examination and prayers on different subjects, for the use of humble-minded and inquiring Jews, [= Der Weg zur Seligkeit, in Frag und Antwort nach Anleitung der heiligen Schrift von Johannes Gossner] translated by J.M. Flad. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1875. [Printed At the request and expense of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; 24 p.; available in Paris (= 2nd ed. of “Man’s heart”?)]

_ _ _ / Scripture with Scripture compared, by J.M. Flad, missionary to the Falashas. 4th revised edition by J.M. Flad. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1876. [32 p.; available in Paris]

_ _ _ / The God of Abraham, Isac and Jacob is the God of salvation. 4th rev. edition by J.M. Flad. St. Chriscona: Mission Press, 1878. [29 p.; available in Paris]

_ _ _ / Short stories for young Abyssinians. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1883.

The Coloured Picture Bible for Abyssinian Children: In the Amharic Language. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1886. [View online]

_ _ _ / The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in Amharic. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1886. [Printed at the expenses of the BFBS; view online at HathiTrust]

_ _ _ / The New Bible containing the Old and New Testaments [in Amharic]. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1886 [according to the Amharic text: 1887]. [Printed at the expenses of the BFBS; view online at Hamburg Univ. Library]

_ _ _ / Man’s Heart either God’s Temple or Satan’s Abode: Represented in 10 Figures; For Awaking and Promoting Christian Faith and Life. 3rd edition by Johann Martin Flad. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1889. [Stuttgart WLB, Theol.oct.7616]

  • 1st edition translated by Johann Ludwig Krapf and Mika’el Arägawi. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1870.

Yatemheret magmreyā eresum yamānebab māsetmārya bamhreñā / The Amharic spelling-book … Tr. by J. M. Flad]. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1889, 1907. [63 p.]

  • 1st edition by C.W. Isenberg. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1872. [57 p.]

_ _ _ / Otto von Gerlach’s Förklaring öfver Johannes’ evangelium. Transl. by B. P. Lundahl. Ed. by J.M. Flad. St. Chrischon: Mission Press, 1889. [For EFS; available at UB Tübingen]

_ _ _ [Amharische Gesänge]. Ca. 1890. [UB Tübingen]

_ _ _ / Pilgrim’s Progress (by John Bunyan). Tr. by J.F. Flad and Gäbrä Giyorgis Terfé. Imkullu: Swedish Mission Press, 1892. [UB Tübingen]

Regni Dei in terris historia amharicè / የእግዚአቢሔር፡ መንግሥት፡ ታሪክ. 2nd edition by Martin Flad. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1893. [UB Tübingen]

  • 1st edition in 2 vols. by Carl Wilhelm Isenberg. London: R. Watts, 1841.
3. Other languages

Flad, Johannes Martin. Notes from the Journal of F [= J.] M. Flad, one of Bishop Gobat’s Pilgrim Missionaries in Abyssinia. Edited and with a brief sketch of the Abyssinian Church by W. Douglas Veitch. London, 1860. [Digitale Sammlungen]

—. Flad, Martin. A Short Description of the Falasha and Kamants in Abyssinia together with an Outline of the Elements and a Vocabulary of the Falasha-Language, composed by Martin Flad, Missionary of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, ed. by J. L. Krapf. St. Chrischona (Switzerland): Mission Press, 1866. [Digitale Sammlungen]

  • German edition: Kurze Schilderung der bisher fast unbekannten abessinischen Juden (Falasha). Ihr Ursprung, Wohnort, Körperbau, Priester, Propheten, Schwarzkünstler, Feste, Reinigungsgesetze, Bäder, Verlobung, Hochzeit, Ehe, Tod und Begräbnis etc. Nebst einem Anhang über die heidnischen Kamanten in Abessinien. Preface by L. Krapf. Korntal: self-published / Basel: C.F. Spittler; Stuttgart: Ev. Bücherstiftung (commission), 1869. [Google Books]
  • (revised?) English version: The Falashas (Jews) of Abyssinia. With a preface by Dr Krapf. Transl. by S.P. Goodhart. London: William Macintosh, 1869. [Google Books]

—. Zwölf Jahre in Abessinien oder Geschichte des Königs Theodoros II. und der Mission unter seiner Regierung […], Basel, 1869. [Download from Halle Univ. Library]

—. 60 Jahre in der Mission unter den Falaschas in Abessinien: Selbstbiographie des Missionars Johann Martin Flad. Mit Einleitung und Schlusswort von seinem Sohn Pastor Friedrich Flad. Giessen and Basel, 1922. [Archive.org]

  • Swedish edition: Ett liv i tro, kärlek och utgivande för Abessinien: Missionär Johan Martin Flads självbiografi. Translated and edited by Elsie Winqvist. Stockholm: EFS, 1927. [SEM Archives]

Flad, Pauline. Eine braune Perle: Erinnerungen aus dem Missionsleben in Abessinien. Neukirchen: Missionsbuchhandlung Stursberg, 1908. [Download; Scholars’ Archive (BYU)]

  • 2nd edition: Giessen and Basel: Brunnen, 1929.

(2) Secondary Literature

1. Encyclopedic articles

Heintze-Flad, Wilfred. “Flad, Johannes Martin” in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, ed. S. Uhlig, p. 552‒53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.

—. “Flad, Pauline Keller]” in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, ed. S. Uhlig, p. 552‒53. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005.

2. Other literature

Flad, Friedrich. Der Gefangene von Magdala: Johann Martin Flad’s Leben und Arbeit für Abessinien. Stuttgart and Basel: Evangelischer Missionsverlag, 1935.

Gidney, William Thomas. The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews: From 1809 to 1908. London: London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, 1908. [Missiology.org]

Flad, Julius. Johann Martin Flad: ein Leben für Äthiopien. Giessen and Basel: Brunnen, 1968.

Pankhurst, Rita. “Observations on a Letter from Emperor Yohannes IV to the Protestant Missionary Martin Flad”, in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Addis Ababa, April 1-6 1991, vol. 1, p. 233 ff. Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, 1994.