(1) Amharic Bible texts with likely input by Wolde Sellasie Kenfe
The books of the Prophets in Amharic: The third part of the Old Testament. St. Chrischona 1873. [View online]
From the first book of Samuel to the Song of Solomon in Amharic: The second part of the Old Testament. St. Chrischona 1873. [View online]
(2) Published letters by Wolde Selassie Kenfu
- Däbtära Wolde Selassie Kenfu to St. Chrischona (31 July 1874). In: Smidt, “Deutsche Briefe […] 1869 bis 1878”, pp. 12-13 of 26. [View online]
- Däbtära Wolde Selassie Kenfu to St. Chrischona (prob. Dec. 1874). In: Smidt, “Deutsche Briefe […] 1869 bis 1878”, pp. 13-14 of 26. [View online]
- Wolde Selassie Kenfu to British and Foreign Bible Society (mid 1875). In: S. Rubenson, Acta Aethiopica, vol. 3, Addis Ababa – New Brunswick, NJ, Addis Ababa University Press, 2000, no. 129, p. 180 f. [View online]
Several reports by Wolde Selassie Kenfu in Mitteilungen aus der Korrespondenz der Pilger-Mission between 1874 and 1876.
- 1874. _ _ _
- 1875. _ _ _
- 1876. _ _ _
(3) Letters referring to Wolde Selassie Kenfu
- (?) Erik Lager to SEM
(4) Missionary journals
Monthly Reporter (British and Foreign Bible Society, ed.)
- 1872. Letter by Krapf to Bible Society
Mittheilungen, etc. (St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission, ed.)
- 1874-75. See Letters by Wolde Sellasie (above, pt. 2)
Missions-Tidning (Swedish Evangelical Mission, ed.)
- 1874. _ _ _
- 1875. _ _ _
- 1876. See p. 4, 14, 15, 55, 56; Obituary on p. 104 (Sept. issue)
Calwer Missionsblatt (several articles on Gobat’s and Schneller’s ministry in Jerusalem)
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(5) Secondary literature
Arén, Gustav. Evangelical Pioneers in Ethiopia: Origins of the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. Stockholm: EFS förlaget; Addis Ababa: Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, 1978. [See p. 189-91; read book online]
Debrunner, Hans Werner. Presence and Prestige: Africans in Europe; A History of Africans in Europe before 1981. Basel (Switzerland): Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1979. [See p. 318-19; read chapter 9]
Smidt, Wolbert G.C. “Before Eritrea, before the Diaspora: Habesha in Exile and on Missions Abroad in the 19th Century”, Eritrean Studies Review 4, no. 2 (2005):1-36, here 11-14. (= Eritrea Abroad: Critical Perspectives on the Global Diaspora, ed. T. Redeker Hepner and B. Conrad. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2005.)
—. “Deutsche Briefe von Äthiopiern aus der Protestantischen Mission: Vom Fall des Téwodros bis zur Unterwerfung des Königs Minílik (1869 bis 1878)”, Orientalia Parthenopea 8 (2008), 9-56. [View at Academia.edu]
—. “Wäldä Śəllase Kənfu”, in Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol . 4, ed. S. Uhlig in cooperation with A. Bausi, p. 1110. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010.
(6) Unpublished archive materials
Spittler-Archiv at Staatsarchiv des Kantons Basel-Stadt
? “Wochenberichte der Pilgermissionsanstalt”. Ref. Code: PA 653a B. 5.2
? Letters by Krapf to Ludwig Jäger. Ref. Code: PA 653a B 7.3
? “Liste der Brüder im Orient (Morgenlande)”. Ref. Code: PA 653a B. 8.7
? “Verzeichnis der verschiedenen Klassen”. Ref. Code: PA 653a B. 8.8
? “Lebensläufe von Petenten”. Ref. Code: PA 653a B. 9.8
? “Schreiben an das Jerusalem Comite i. Basel”, 1841-78. Ref. Code: PA 653a C. 1.1
? “Briefe wegen d. Syrischen Waisenhaus von J.L. Schneller”, 1850-88. Ref. Code: PA 653a C. 1.6
? “Statuten des Syr. Waisenhauses und Berichte”, 1860-90. Ref. Code: PA 653a C. 4.2
? Letters by Mr Jäger et al.
St. Chrischona-Pilgermission Archive (at Theol. Seminar St. Chrischona)
? personal file “Wolde Sellasie Kenfu” (Brüderverzeichnis Nr. _ _ _),
Library
Stuttgart, Landeskirchliches Archiv
“Syrisches Waisenhaus” (incl. Schneller’s school in Jerusalem). Ref. Code: K 8
Jerusalem
?
EFS historical archives
?
Korntal/ Baden-Württemberg
- It appears there are no archive materials on Wolde Sellasie