Walda Heywat

Walda Heywat was born about 1630 at the Enfraz region of the Begemder province of the Ethiopian Empire, the son of Habtu, a principal Enfraz-area Ethiopian-Orthodox-Tewahedo Christian household of the principal post-1626 Catholic-Susenyos-conversion period. He was raised in the principal Enfraz Begemder Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christian community of the principal Susenyos-and-Fasilides imperial transition.

He was educated at the principal Enfraz Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastic schools across the principal late-1630s and 1640s — and was instructed in the principal classical Ge'ez and the principal Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Psalter, the principal Old and New Testaments, and the principal Ethiopian Orthodox monastic-tradition.

He was the principal disciple-and-student of Zera Yacob (placed in this archive) across the principal post-1645 Zera-Yacob-Enfraz-period — at the principal Enfraz Habtu-household tutorial residency of Zera Yacob across the principal post-1632 Zera-Yacob Enfraz-and-Begemder rationalist-philosophical-and-tutorial residency.

He commissioned the principal Hatata of Zera Yacob at the principal Enfraz Habtu-household in 1667 — and the principal Zera-Yacob Hatata of 1667 was composed at the principal commission-and-request of the principal Walda-Heywat disciple-residency.

He composed the principal Treatise of Walda Heywat at the principal post-1692 Enfraz Ethiopian Orthodox community in the principal post-1692 period — at the principal post-1692 Zera-Yacob death philosophical-and-rationalist Enfraz-period composition.

The principal Treatise of Walda Heywat of the principal post-1692 period is at this day the principal practical-ethical companion-treatise to the principal Hatata of Zera Yacob of 1667 — at the principal post-1692 Ethiopian rationalist-philosophical-and-practical-ethical Ethiopian Orthodox-and-philosophical canon.

The principal Treatise of Walda Heywat extends the principal Zera-Yacob rationalist-philosophical-and-deistic-and-natural-religion philosophical-framework of the principal Hatata of 1667 — at the principal post-1692 practical-ethical-and-social-and-family-and-religious application of the principal Zera-Yacob philosophical-framework to the principal Enfraz Ethiopian Orthodox practical-everyday-life community.

The principal Hatata of Zera Yacob and the principal Treatise of Walda Heywat — at the principal post-1692 Enfraz Ethiopian Orthodox philosophical community — were preserved at the principal Lake Tana monastic libraries across the principal post-1692 Ethiopian Orthodox-and-monastic community. The principal post-1692 Hatata-and-Treatise manuscripts were first translated into Latin in 1768 by the principal Italian Capuchin missionary Padre Giusto da Urbino at the principal post-1768 European philosophical-recovery period.

He died at Enfraz, Begemder about 1700 of natural causes, at approximately seventy.

He is honored here as the author of the Treatise of Walda Heywat.