Carl Bezold was a German orientalist. He initially had an interest in Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

, and translated from Syriac. He became known as an Assyriologist. Nevertheless in 1909 he edited and printed the Ge'ez (Ethiopic) epic Kebra Nagast

Kebra Nagast

The Kebra Nagast , or the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia. The text, in its existing form, is at least seven hundred years old, and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians and Rastafarians to be an...

, collating the most valuable texts and with critical notes. [Bezold, Carl. Kebra Nagast: Die Herrlichkeit der Könige [Kebra Nagast:
the Glory of the Kings] Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen
Akademie, Band 23, Abth.]

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