Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 1909–1977
Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen
Aviator · Founder of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force · Humanitarian
They came as missionaries, doctors, officers, pilots, and coaches. They stayed as Ethiopians.
Explore the Memorial
Five gateways into a hundred and eleven years of shared history
Timeline
1866 to 1977 — the landing at Massawa, the Imperial school in Addis Ababa, the bombing of the Red Cross, the founding of the Air Force, the Ogaden War.
Biographies
The pilot, the missionaries, the officers, the doctors, the coach — and the Oromo boy raised by the mission who translated the Bible into his own language.
Special Stories
The bombing of Mälka Dida. The barefoot marathon in Rome. The school for blind children at Edaga Arbi that still stands today.
Historians
The Swedish and Ethiopian scholars whose work makes this archive possible — from the early mission chroniclers to the modern academic biographers.
Sources
Memoirs, archives, and scholarly works — from Hylander's 'I detta tecken' (1936) to Özdalga's 'The Last Dragoman'.
This is a living archive. New names, photographs, and primary sources are added as families and institutions share them.