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Ethiopian studies began a new era in 1963 when the Institute of Ethiopian Studies was founded on the campus of Haile Selassie University (which was later renamed Addis Ababa University). [4] The heart of the IES is the library, containing a wide variety of published and unpublished materials on all types of matters related to Ethiopia and the ...
The Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES) was officially established in 1963 to collect information on Ethiopian civilization, its history, cultures, and languages. [1] The Institute includes a research and publication unit, a library, and a museum.
Ethiopian historians such as Taddesse Tamrat (1935–2013) and Sergew Hable Sellassie have argued that modern Ethiopian studies were an invention of the 17th century and originated in Europe. [80] Tamrat considered Carlo Conti Rossini's 1928 Storia d'Etiopia a groundbreaking work in Ethiopian studies. [80]
The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica has hundreds of authors from at least thirty countries. High academic standards are secured by an editorial team based at the Research Unit Ethiopian Studies (since 2009 Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies) at the University of Hamburg in Germany, and experts on all important fields and a board of international supervisors supported the editors.
The Institute of Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa has a collection of approximately 1500 manuscripts, still largely uncatalogued as of 2012. [8] However a team led by Alessandro Gori undertook a listing exercise with regard to the Arabic materials and published the results in 2014. [9]
He was chosen for the 1967 Schweich Lecture on Biblical Archaeology which he gave on the subject of "Ethiopia and the Bible". [11] The Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie honoured Ullendorff with the Haile Selassie International Prize for Ethiopian Studies in 1972. He repeatedly met with the monarch, who was overthrown in 1974 and assassinated the ...
A 2016 study in the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, for example, argues that “the rapid decline in fertility rates among Ethiopian Israeli women following their migration to Israel ...
Ephraim Isaac (born 29 May 1936) is an Ethiopian scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of African and Ethiopian civilizations. He founded the Institute of Semitic Studies, which he directs from his home in Princeton, NJ, [1] and is the chair of his Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.