This article surveys the diasporic life and legacy of the Ethiopian ecclesiastic Täsfa Ṣeyon. After examining his origins in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia and the circumstances of his arrival in mid-sixteenth-century Rome, the article outlines his contributions to the evolving Latin Catholic understanding of Ethiopia. Täsfa Ṣeyon was a librarian, copyist, teacher, translator, author, and community leader, as well as a prominent adviser to European humanist scholars and Church authorities concerned with orientalist philologia sacra as it pertained to Ethiopian Orthodox (täwaḥedo) Christianity. As such, he was a key extra-European agent in the Tridentine project of Ethiopianist and Eastern Christian knowledge production. The article also surveys the complex modern legacy of Täsfa Ṣeyon's career, documenting his posthumous influence in the fields of Ethiopianist Semitic studies and Ethiopian vernacular historiography.

本文调查了埃塞俄比亚教会TäsfaṢeyon的流放生活和遗产。在考察了他在埃塞俄比亚基督教王国的起源以及他在十六世纪中叶到达罗马的情况后，本文概述了他对拉丁天主教徒对埃塞俄比亚发展的理解的贡献。TäsfaṢeyon是一名图书管理员，抄写员，老师，翻译，作家和社区负责人，还是欧洲人文主义学者和与东方埃塞俄比亚东正教有关的东方哲学sarcra的教会当局的杰出顾问。）基督教。因此，他是埃塞俄比亚人和东方基督教知识生产的Tridentine项目的重要欧洲以外代理商。文章还考察了塔斯法·塞翁职业生涯的复杂现代遗产，记录了他在埃塞俄比亚主义闪族人研究和埃塞俄比亚白话史学领域的死后影响。