Balthasar Tellez

Balthasar Tellez (1596, Lisbon – 1675, Lisbon) was a Portugese historian. He became a Jesuit, and after teaching in the principal seminaries of his order during more than 20 years, he was appointed a rector of the Irish seminary and of the college of Don Antonio at Lisbon. He at length arrived at the dignity of provincial, but he resigned that office in his old age. His literary works are Chronicle of the affairs of the Society of Jesus in Portugal (1644-1647), 2 vols., General history of Upper Ethiopia, and of the establishment of the Jesuits in that kingdom (1660), The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1710, first translation in English).