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Getatchew Haile (June 1, 1932-) is an Ethiopian-American philologist widely considered the foremost scholar of the Ge'ez language alive today. He was acknowledged for his contributions to the field with a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius" award and the Edward Ullendorff Medal from the Council of the British Academy. He is currently Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies, and Curator, Ethiopian Study Center at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University,〔http://www.hmml.org/centers/ethiopia/emml_curator.html〕〔http://www.csbsju.edu/news/haile.htm〕 where he has worked since 1976. At St John's, he has prepared catalogues of more than five thousand Ethiopian manuscripts and trained Ethiopic manuscript cataloguers in paleography, dating, and so on. Previously he was associate professor in the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature, Haile Sellasie I University (now Addis Ababa University), from 1962 to 1969, and 1971 to 1974, where he taught Amharic Grammar, Amharic Literature, Ge’ez Grammar, Ge’ez Literature, Arabic Grammar, and Semitic Linguistics. He is on the advisory board of a number of journals, including ''Comité de lecture of Analecta Bollandiana'' (Journal of Christian Hagiography), ''Ethiopian Journal of Education'', ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', ''Northeast African Studies'', ''Ethiopian Register'' (1994-2001), and ''Acta Aethiopica'' (1980–89). He was born in Shenkora (in the province of Shoa, Ethiopia) and from 1945 to 1951 he attended Trinity School in Addis Abeba. He graduated from the Coptic Theological College, Cairo, Egypt with a B.D. in 1957; from the American University in Cairo, with a B.A. in 1957; and from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, with a Ph.D. in Semitic Philology, in 1962. ==Honors and Distinctions== *Council of the British Academy, Edward Ullendorff Medal 2014, awarded for scholarly distinction and achievements in the field of Semitic languages or Ethiopian studies. *Ethiopia Diaspora organizations’ recognition for community service, May 26, 1996; November 9, 1996; May 26, 2001; and August 21, 2004. *Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 1987–present. *MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, 1988-1993. *Ethiopian Government Award for academic excellence, 1991 (declined). *Member, Ethiopian Parliament, representing the province of Shoa, 1974-75. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Getatchew Haile」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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