Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Ethiopian Studies

Index Ethiopian Studies

Ethiopian Studies refers to a multi-disciplinary academic cluster dedicated to research on Ethiopia within the cultural and historical context of the Horn of Africa. [1]

50 relations: Abyssinian people, Addis Ababa University, Afroasiatic languages, Alula Pankhurst, Amharas, Amsalu Aklilu, Angelo Del Boca, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, August Dillmann, Carlo Conti Rossini, Christian, David Appleyard, Donald N. Levine, Edward Ullendorff, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Enno Littmann, Enrico Cerulli, Ephraim Isaac, Ethiopia, Ethiopian manuscript collections, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopian Semitic languages, Ethnography, Getatchew Haile, Haggai Erlich, Harold C. Fleming, Hiob Ludolf, History, Horn of Africa, Islam in Ethiopia, Lanfranco Ricci, Linguistics, Lionel Bender, Marcel Cohen, Mekelle, Merid Wolde Aregay, Mesfin Woldemariam, Olga Kapeliuk, Philology, Richard Pankhurst (academic), Robert Hetzron, Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Somali studies, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Taddesse Tamrat, The arts, Theology, Thomas Oden Lambdin, Tigrayans, Wolf Leslau.

Abyssinian people

Abyssinian people (ሐበሻይት), also known as the Habesha or Abesha, are a population inhabiting the Horn of Africa.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Abyssinian people · See more »

Addis Ababa University

Addis Ababa University (አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ) is a state university in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Addis Ababa University · See more »

Afroasiatic languages

Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also known as Afrasian and traditionally as Hamito-Semitic (Chamito-Semitic) or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family of about 300 languages and dialects.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Afroasiatic languages · See more »

Alula Pankhurst

Alula Pankhurst is a social development consultant whose main focus has been on Ethiopia and Ethiopian studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Alula Pankhurst · See more »

Amharas

Amharas (አማራ, Āmara; አምሐራ, ʾÄməḥära), also known as Abyssinians, are an ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the northern and central highlands of Ethiopia, particularly the Amhara Region.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Amharas · See more »

Amsalu Aklilu

Amsalu Aklilu (2 September 1929 – 19 December 2013) was a distinguished lexicographer of Amharic and a language professor at Addis Ababa University, a major figure in Ethiopian studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Amsalu Aklilu · See more »

Angelo Del Boca

Angelo Del Boca (born May 23, 1925 in Novara) is an Italian historian.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Angelo Del Boca · See more »

Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie d'Arrast (3 January 181019 March 1897) was an Irish-born French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer notable for his travels in EthiopiaAlthough referred to as Ethiopia here, the region that they traveled is more accurately defined as Abyssinia or in today's geography northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie · See more »

August Dillmann

Christian Friedrich August Dillmann (25 April 18237 July 1894) was a German orientalist and biblical scholar.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and August Dillmann · See more »

Carlo Conti Rossini

Carlo Conti Rossini (1872-1949) was an Italian orientalist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Carlo Conti Rossini · See more »

Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Christian · See more »

David Appleyard

David Appleyard (born 1950 in Leeds, England) is a British academic and an expert on Ethiopian languages and linguistics.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and David Appleyard · See more »

Donald N. Levine

Donald Nathan Levine (June 16, 1931 – April 4, 2015) was an American sociologist, educator, social theorist and writer.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Donald N. Levine · See more »

Edward Ullendorff

Edward Ullendorff FBA (25 January 1920 – 6 March 2011) was a British scholar and historian.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Edward Ullendorff · See more »

Encyclopaedia Aethiopica

The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (EAe) is a basic Encyclopaedia for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Encyclopaedia Aethiopica · See more »

Enno Littmann

Ludwig Richard Enno Littmann (September 16, 1875, Oldenburg - May 4, 1958, Tübingen) was a German orientalist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Enno Littmann · See more »

Enrico Cerulli

Enrico Cerulli (15 February 1898 - 19 September 1988) was an Italian scholar of Somali and Ethiopian studies, a governor and a diplomat.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Enrico Cerulli · See more »

Ephraim Isaac

Ephraim Isaac (born May 29, 1936) is a scholar of ancient Semitic Languages & Civilization, and African/Ethiopian Languages and Religion.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ephraim Isaac · See more »

Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ethiopia · See more »

Ethiopian manuscript collections

Ethiopian manuscripts are known to have reached Europe as early as the fifteenth century, perhaps even earlier, through Egypt, Ethiopian pilgrims to the Holy Land and through members of the Ethiopian monastery of St Stephen of the Abyssinians in Rome.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ethiopian manuscript collections · See more »

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (የኢትዮጵያ:ኦርቶዶክስ:ተዋሕዶ:ቤተ:ክርስቲያን; Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church · See more »

Ethiopian Semitic languages

Ethiopian Semitic (also known as Ethiosemitic or Ethiopic, or in the past by a few linguists as Abyssinian due to geographyIgor Mikhailovich Diakonov: Nauka, Central Department of Oriental Literature, (1965) pp 12) is a language group which forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ethiopian Semitic languages · See more »

Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Ethnography · See more »

Getatchew Haile

Getatchew Haile (June 1, 1932-) is an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language alive today.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Getatchew Haile · See more »

Haggai Erlich

Haggai Erlich (born 1942) is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and an academic adviser at the Open University of Israel where he is the head of Middle Eastern History studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Haggai Erlich · See more »

Harold C. Fleming

Harold Crane Fleming (December 23, 1926 – April 29, 2015) was an American anthropologist and historical linguist, specializing in the cultures and languages of the Horn of Africa.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Harold C. Fleming · See more »

Hiob Ludolf

Hiob Ludolf (or Job Leutholf) (15 June 1624 – 8 April 1704) was a German orientalist, born at Erfurt.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Hiob Ludolf · See more »

History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and History · See more »

Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Guardafui Channel, lying along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden and the southwest Red Sea.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Horn of Africa · See more »

Islam in Ethiopia

Islam is the second largest religion in Ethiopia (after Christianity) over 35%-40% practices it, and in terms of land or regions Muslims occupies 80% of the land.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Islam in Ethiopia · See more »

Lanfranco Ricci

Lanfranco Ricci (25 March 1916 - 15 December 2007) was an Italian Ethiopianist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Lanfranco Ricci · See more »

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Linguistics · See more »

Lionel Bender

Marvin Lionel Bender (August 18, 1934 – February 19, 2008) was an American author and linguist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Lionel Bender · See more »

Marcel Cohen

Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen (February 6, 1884 – November 5, 1974) was a French linguist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Marcel Cohen · See more »

Mekelle

Mekelle (መቐለ, mäqälle), formerly the capital of Enderta awraja in Tigray, is today the capital city of Tigray National Regional state.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Mekelle · See more »

Merid Wolde Aregay

Merid Wolde Aregay (1934/35 - 2008) was an Ethiopian historian and a scholar of Ethiopian studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Merid Wolde Aregay · See more »

Mesfin Woldemariam

Mesfin Woldemariam (also spelled Mesfin Wolde Mariam; Ge'ez: መስፍን ወልደ ማርያም born 1930) is an Ethiopian academic and human rights activist.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Mesfin Woldemariam · See more »

Olga Kapeliuk

Prof.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Olga Kapeliuk · See more »

Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Philology · See more »

Richard Pankhurst (academic)

Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst OBE (3 December 1927 – 16 February 2017) was a British academic, founding member of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, and former professor at the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Richard Pankhurst (academic) · See more »

Robert Hetzron

Robert Hetzron, born Herzog (31 December 1937, Budapest – 12 August 1997, Santa Barbara, California), was a Hungarian-born linguist known for his work on the comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Robert Hetzron · See more »

Second Italo-Ethiopian War

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a colonial war from 3 October 1935 until 1939, despite the Italian claim to have defeated Ethiopia by 5 May 1936, the date of the capture of Addis Ababa.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Second Italo-Ethiopian War · See more »

Somali studies

Somali studies is the scholarly term for research concerning Somalis and Greater Somalia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Somali studies · See more »

Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region

Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (often abbreviated as SNNPR; የደቡብ ብሔር ብሔረሰቦችና ህዝቦች ክልል) is one of the nine ethnically based regional states (kililoch) of Ethiopia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region · See more »

Taddesse Tamrat

Taddesse Tamrat (1935–2013) was an Ethiopian historian and scholar of Ethiopian studies.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Taddesse Tamrat · See more »

The arts

The arts refers to the theory and physical expression of creativity found in human societies and cultures.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and The arts · See more »

Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Theology · See more »

Thomas Oden Lambdin

Thomas Oden Lambdin is one of the leading scholars of the Semitic and Egyptian languages.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Thomas Oden Lambdin · See more »

Tigrayans

Tigrayans (ተጋሩ) also called Agazian, are an ethnolinguistic group primarily inhabiting the Eritrean highlands and the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Tigrayans · See more »

Wolf Leslau

Wolf Leslau (וולף לסלאו; born November 14, 1906 in Krzepice, Vistula Land, Poland; died November 18, 2006 in Fullerton, California) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.

New!!: Ethiopian Studies and Wolf Leslau · See more »

Redirects here:

Ethiopian studies.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Studies

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »