Getachew Haile | |
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 Haile reading Ge'ez manuscripts in 2012 | |
| Born | April 19, 1931 |
| Died | June 11, 2021 (aged 90) Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1957–2021 |
| Notable work | Acta Aethiopica (1980–89) |
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]
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved April 12, 2021.
- ^ 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.