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Edward Ullendorff
FBA
Born(1920-01-25)25 January 1920
Berlin, Germany
Died6 March 2011(2011-03-06) (aged 91)
Oxford, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Dina Ullendorff
(m. 1943)
Academic background
Alma mater
  • Hebrew University
  • University of Oxford
ThesisThe Relationship of the Modern Semitic Ethiopian Languages to Ethiopic (Geʽez) (1952)
Doctoral advisorG. R. Driver[1]
Academic work
Discipline
  • Semitic studies
  • Ethiopian studies
Institutions
  • University of St Andrews
  • University of Manchester
  • School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Notable students
  • Hugh Pilkington[2]
  • David Appleyard
Notable works
  • The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People (1966)
  • Ethiopia and the Bible (1968)

Edward Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar of Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies.

  1. ^ Khan, Geoffrey; Hopkins, Simon; Appleyard, David; Knibb, Michael (2013), "Edward Ullendorff: 1920–2011", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy (PDF), vol. XII, The British Academy, pp. 405–432
  2. ^ Ullendorff, Edward (22 October 1986). "Dr Hugh Pilkington". The Times. No. 62595. London. p. 22.

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Derek Allen Prize (for numismatics, Celtic studies or musicology) Edward Ullendorff Medal (for Semitic languages and Ethiopian studies) Grahame Clark...

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Autobiography of Emperor Haile Selassie I, translated from Amharic by Edward Ullendorff. Great Britain: Oxford University Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-19-713589-7...

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known as Job Leutholf, was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt. Edward Ullendorff rates Ludolf as having "the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship"...

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the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy. He was the first Ethiopian...

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Wheeler. "People of the Well". A-Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism. Edward Ullendorff, Ethiopia and the Bible (Oxford: University Press for the British...

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to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of...

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Tigrayans

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presence in the region may date back to at least 2000 BC. According to Edward Ullendorff, Tigrinya speakers in Eritrea Tigray, and the Amharic speaking people...

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12 March 2019. Wylde, Modern Abyssinia, p. 25. Trimingham, p. 172. Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition...

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Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

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former professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of London, Edward Ullendorff, declared that he personally examined the ark contained within the...

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Iyasu II

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lacked money to pay for procurement of a new abuna. According to Edward Ullendorff, Iyasu's authority "scarcely extended beyond Begemder and Gojjam;...

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Abraha

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Iyoas I

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openly in the hands of the great nobles and military commanders. As Edward Ullendorff notes, It is this period, from 1769 to the beginning of Theodore's...

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Zagwe dynasty

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The Red Sea Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-56902-379-2. OCLC 824502290. Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians, Oxford University Press, 1960 Falola, Toyin (2002)...

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Heruy Wolde Selassie

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bureaucratic hierarchy were all characterized by an unchequered progression. Edward Ullendorff concurs in this evaluation, describing his oeuvre as "a considerable...

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Abu Rumi

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great orientalist," writes Edward Ullendorff, "but presumably it was a smattering of Ge'ez and Amharic poetry" (Ullendorff, 1968: 66). While travelling...

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British Academy

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Science, first awarded in 2014 Serena Medal, first awarded in 1920 Edward Ullendorff Medal, first awarded in 2012 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, first awarded...

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Ark of the Covenant

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University of Toronto called Hancock's theory "garbage and hogwash"; Edward Ullendorff, a former professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of London...

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Beta Israel

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