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Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin (also spelled Walda Kahen; Amharic: አባ ሳሙኤል ወልደ ካህን) was the tutor and mentor of ''Ras'' Tafari Makonnen (later Emperor Haile Selassie I) and his cousin, ''Ras'' Imru Haile Selassie, when the two were children living at Harar, ca. 1902-1912. In Chapter 1 of his autobiography, ''My Life and Ethiopia's Progress'', Haile Selassie recalls how his father ''Ras'' Makonnen Woldemikael first arranged for Dr. Vitalien, a physician from Guadeloupe, to instruct the boys in French an hour or so a day. Not considering this sufficient, he also hired Abba Samuel, an Ethiopian at the French Capuchin Mission in Harar.〔''Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia'' p. 193.〕 Samuel's father, ''Alaqa'' Wolde Kahin, had earlier converted to Roman Catholicism. According to historian H.G. Marcus, this association had caused some suspicion among the nobles that ''Ras'' Tafari was leaning toward Catholicism himself, which suspicion he allayed by undergoing a rare second Ethiopian Orthodox rite of baptism in 1906.〔H.G. Marcus, ''Haile Selassie I: The Formative Years, 1892-1936'', p. 7.〕 As remembered by the future Emperor in his autobiography,
Later in Chapter 5 of his autobiography, the Emperor relates that Abba Samuel was one of the seven men who drowned in a boating accident on Lake Alemaya on 7 June 1915. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abba Samuel Wolde Kahin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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