Getatchew Haile (Amharic: ጌታቸው ኀይሌ, romanized: Gētachew Ḫäyilē; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021)[1] was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language[2] and one of its most prolific (he published more than 150 books and articles).[3] He was acknowledged for his contributions to the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award[4][5] and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy.[6] He was the first Ethiopian and the first African to win the award.[7][8][9]
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^Galawdewos (October 13, 2015). The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400874149.
^Bausi, Alessandro, and Thomas Rave. "A Selected Bibliography of the Publications of Getatchew Haile." In Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History: Festschrift for Getatchew Haile, edited by Adam Carter McCollum. Aethiopistische Forschungen 83, 609-19. Wiesbaden, London: Harrassowitz Verlag; Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London, 2017.
^Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. 1988.
^MacArthur Fellows: The First 25 Years, 1981-2005. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 2005.
^Delamarter, Steve; Haile, Getatchew (January 31, 2013). Catalogue of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project: Codices 106-200 and Magic Scrolls 135-284. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 9780227173848.
^Ullendorff, Edward (1996). "Review of A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville. Vol. X. Project Numbers 4001-5000". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 59 (1): 205–206. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 619459.
^"MacArthur Foundation Awards Black Genius". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (24): 49–51. 1999. doi:10.2307/2999069. ISSN 1077-3711. JSTOR 2999069.
^"African-American Recipients of MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grants," 1981-1996". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (13): 51. 1996. ISSN 1077-3711. JSTOR 2963164.
GetatchewHaile (Amharic: ጌታቸው ኀይሌ, romanized: Gētachew Ḫäyilē; April 19, 1931 – June 10, 2021) was an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered...
model GetatchewHaile, philologist Getatchew Mekurya, Legendary Ethiopian Jazz Saxophonist Haddis Alemayehu, Foreign Minister and Novelist Haile Gebrselassie...
death, see, and. Both "Giyorgis of Gasicha" and "Giyorgis of Segla", GetatchewHaile (1991). Ethiopian Saints: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. Retrieved...
with the King Armah of Axum, who issued coins between 600 and 640. GetatchewHaile, in translating the notes of the manuscripts, leaves open the possibility...
Food Prize laureate and Distinguished Professor at Purdue University GetatchewHaile, scholar of the Ge'ez language Walda Heywat, philosopher Ephraim Isaac...
S̥eyon, King of Ethiopia. Clarendon Press. Pankhurst 1997, p. 45. GETATCHEW, HAILE (1983). "THE CAUSE OF THE ƎSṬIFANOSITES: A Fundamentalist Sect in the...
lang=en#bodyftn1 Haile, Getatchew (2017). Ethiopian Studies in Honour of Amha Asfaw. New York: GetatchewHaile. p. 57. ISBN 978-0970666383. Haile 2017:70 Belcher...
Unicode Consortium. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. GetatchewHaile, "Ethiopic Writing". In Daniels & Bright (1996) The World's Writing...
Getatchew Mekurya (Amharic: ጌታቸው መኩሪያ ወልደ ተክሌ; 14 March 1935 – 4 April 2016) was an Ethiopian jazz saxophonist. Getatchew Mekurya was born on 14 March...
Biography, http://www.dacb.org/stories/ethiopia/estifanos_.html (2005) Dr. GetatchewHaile (translator), The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende (2006)...
Politicians, 1972 (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2007), p. 141 Donald Crummey and GetatchewHaile, "Abunä Sälama: Metropolitan of Ethiopia, 1841-1867 A New Gə'əz Biography"...
Zion GetatchewHaile, "A History of the Tabot of Atronesa Maryam in Amhara", Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 34 (1988), p. 15 Getatchew, "A History"...
and paleontologist Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian GetatchewHaile, philologist and linguist Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist Marvin Philip...
Symposium on the Impact of European Missions on Ethiopian Society, ed. GetatchewHaile, Samuel Rubenson, and Aasulv Lande (Frankfurt: Verlag, 1998); Hervé...
examine the Tweed collection. Subsequent to her research and that of GetatchewHaile and Ted Erho, the School of Divinity recognised in 2012 that Tweed...
(1979). Ethiopian Magic Scrolls. New York, NY: George Braziller. p. 12. GetatchewHaile; Melaku Terefe; Roger M. Rundell; Daniel Alemu; Steve Delamarter (2009)...
from the official records. A more recent chronicler of Wollo history, Getatchew Mekonnen Hasen, states that the last Zagwe king deposed by Yekuno Amlak...
recipients: 2012: Simon Hopkins, FBA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 2013: GetatchewHaile, FBA, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library of Saint John's University,...
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