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Getatchew Haile

January 01, 2023

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]

Getatchew Haile
Haile reading Ge'ez manuscripts in 2012
Born(1931-04-19)April 19, 1931
Shenkora, Shewa province, Ethiopian Empire
DiedJune 11, 2021(2021-06-11) (aged 90)
Mount Sinai Morningside, New York, U.S.
Nationality
  • Ethiopian
  • American
Alma mater
Occupation
Years active1957–2021
Notable workActa Aethiopica (1980–89)

Early life

Haile was born in the rural village of Tute in Shenkora (part of the province of Shoa in the Ethiopian Empire).[10] As a boy, he attended an Ethiopian Orthodox Church school, where he learned Ge'ez and "devoted his energies to reading and understanding the texts."[11]

From 1945 to 1951 he attended Trinity School in Addis Ababa. Haile moved to Cairo in 1952, and lived there through most of the 1950s, graduating from the Coptic Theological College, Cairo, Egypt with a B.D. in 1957, and from the American University in Cairo, with a B.A. in 1957. He then moved to Germany in 1957, where he received from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen a Ph.D. in Semitic Philology in 1962. The title of his dissertation was Das Verbalsystem im Äthiopischen: Ein morphologischer Vergleich mit den orientalischen semitischen Sprachen.[11] Haile married Misrak Amare on July 12, 1964, in Sidamo.[12]

In 1974, Haile became a member of the transitional Ethiopian Parliament from Shoa province. Due to his opposition to the Derg junta,[11] government soldiers came to his home to arrest him in 1975. He was involved in a shootout and eventually shot and captured. After the BBC World Service and Voice of America reported on his arrest, the government released him.[13] Through the intervention of friends, Haile was allowed to travel to London for medical treatment. He became paraplegic due to severe damage to his spinal cord, and needed to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life.[14]

Academic career

Haile was associate professor in the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature, Haile Selassie 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.[15] He was appointed head of the department in 1965.

After arriving in the U.S. in 1976, Haile joined Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He eventually became a Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Ethiopian Study Center at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.[16][5] At HMML, he prepared catalogues of more than six thousand Ethiopian manuscripts and trained Ethiopic manuscript cataloguers in paleography, dating, and other skills.[17][18][19][20][21]

He was 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).[22][23]

In addition to his writings and translations of a variety of works on Ethiopia and the Orthodox church, he produced two two-volume books on the history and beliefs of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende, one in 2006[24] and the other in 2011.[25] His first translation, into Amharic, was of Mark Twain’s short story Extracts from Adam's Diary in 1965.[11]

The languages in which he worked were Amharic, Ge'ez, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, German, and Coptic.[11]

Reputation

Haile's work has frequently been described as foundational to the field of Ethiopian studies and has won many awards.[26][27]

Edward Ullendorff, professor of Semitic studies at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies, described Haile's work as "highly significant" due to his "profoundly erudite" knowledge of Ethiopic language and literature.[7][11] On another occasion, Ullendorff wrote that Haile's work represented the "most meticulous and original study of Ethiopic literature" ever done, and "on a scale and depth never before attempted."[28] He added, "no other person before Getatchew Haile has ever been able to survey so much of Ethiopic literary creation and thus to gain so sovereign a command of this genre", which made a contribution not only to Ethiopian studies but also the study of Christian oriental writing more generally.[28]

The Ethiopian poet Amha Asfaw wrote a poem in Amharic for him in 1999.[11]

Personal life

Haile and his wife, Misrak Amare, had four children, adopted two more, and had many grandchildren. Among his children are the material science professor Sossina M. Haile and the author Rebecca G. Haile.[29]

Haile served as a confidante of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 1960s, as well as the Church's representative to the World Council of Churches.[29]

Haile never returned to Ethiopia after leaving in 1975.[12] He remained critical of the successive Ethiopian governments: in 2005, Ethiopian authorities charged him in absentia with treason for his comments.[13]

Haile and his wife moved to New York City in 2016. He died at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital on June 10, 2021, at the age of 90.[12] President Sahle-Work Zewde expressed her condolences to Haile's family in a press release.[30]

Lectures

Haile gave a video lecture on the Täˀammərä Maryam, the Ethiopian Miracles of Mary stories, on May 23, 2020. Alessandro Bausi (professor, University of Hamburg), Kay Shelemay (professor, Harvard University), Elias Wondimu (CEO of Tsehai Publishers), and Habtamu Tegegne (professor, Rutgers University) spoke about Getatchew Haile's contributions.[31]

In 2018, he gave an Amharic-language interview for EBS TV at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[32] He also gave a video lecture at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in April 2020.[33]

Honors and distinctions

  • Abebe Bikila's Life Time Achievement Award, 2018[34]
  • Honoree of a festschrift volume in 2017: Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History Festschrift for Getatchew Haile Presented by his Friends and Colleagues[35]
  • Council of the British Academy, Edward Ullendorff Medal 2014, awarded for scholarly distinction and achievements in the field of Semitic languages or Ethiopian studies[36]
  • Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora Annual Award, 1986[12]
  • Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, 1987–2021[12]
  • MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, 1988–1993[5]
  • Ethiopian Government Award for academic excellence, 1991 (declined)[37]
  • Member, Ethiopian Parliament, representing the province of Shoa, 1974–75[38]

Books

  • The Homily of Zär'a Ya'əqob's Mäshafä Bərhan on the Rite of Baptism and Religious Instruction CSCO, text, Vol. 653/114, and trans., Vol. 654/115. Louvain: Peeters, 2013[39]
  • Voices from Däbrä Zämäddo: Acts of Abba Bärtälomewos and Abba Yoḥannǝs 45 Miracles of Mary (Aethiopistische Forschungen 79), Wiesbaden 2013[40]
  • A History of the first Estifanosite Monks. 2 vols. (ed. & tr.) Louvain: Peeters, 2011, ISBN 978-90-429-2513-7
  • Amdafta Lawgahu (Let Me Entertain You for a Moment: An Amharic Autobiography), Collegeville, (Minnesota), 2008[41]
  • The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Esṭifanos of Gwendagwende, 2 vols. (ed. & tr.). Louvain: Peeters Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-90-429-1741-5
  • Deqiqe Istifanos: Behigg Amlak (Hagiographies of the Estifanosite monks who flourished and were martyred in the fifteenth century, in Amharic), Collegeville (Minnesota), 2004[42]
  • Ya’Abā Bā’rey Dersatoč (The Works of Abba Bā’rey with Other Documents Concerning the Oromo, in Amharic), Collegeville (Minnesota), 2002[43]
  • Bahra Hassab (= Computus). (On the Ethiopian Calendar, with Annals of Ethiopian History, in Amharic), Collegeville (Minnesota), 2000.[44]
  • 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, Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1993[45]
  • The Mariology of Emperor Zära Ya’qob of Ethiopia (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, No. 242), Rome 1992[46]
  • Beauty of the Creation, with Misrak Amare, University of Manchester, 1991[47]
  • The Epistle of Humanity of Emperor Zär’a Ya’qob (Ṭomarä Tsb’t), Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series, Vol. 522/Aeth. 95, tr. 523/Aeth. 96 (1991)[46]
  • The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian Church (Haymanot Msi’awit), Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series, Vol. 517/Aeth. 91 (1990)[46]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. IX: Project Numbers 3501–4000, Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1987. ISBN 978-0-940250-55-0
  • The Different Collections of Nägś Hymns of the Ethiopic Literature (Oikonomia No. 19), Erlangen (Germany), 1983[48]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. VIII: Project Numbers 3001–3500, Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1985[17]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. VII: Project Numbers 2501–3000, (with a checklist by William F. Macomber), Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1983[19]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. VI: Project Numbers 2001–2500, (with a checklist by William F. Macomber), Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1982[21]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. V: Project Numbers 1501–2000, (with a checklist by William F. Macomber) Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1981[18]
  • A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, Vol. IV: Project Numbers 1101–1500, Collegeville, (Minnesota) 1979[49]
  • Mark Twain's Letters from Earth (adapted into Amharic from the German version, Tagebuch von Adam und Eva), Addis Ababa, 1968[11]
  • Das Verbalsystem im Äthiopischen. Ein morphologischer Vergleich mit den orientalischen semitischen Sprachen. Diss., Tübingen 1962[11]

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getatchew, haile, amharic, ጌታቸው, ኀይሌ, romanized, gētachew, Ḫäyilē, april, 1931, june, 2021, ethiopian, american, philologist, widely, considered, foremost, scholar, language, most, prolific, published, more, than, books, articles, acknowledged, contributions, . Getatchew Haile Amharic ጌታቸው ኀይሌ romanized Getachew Ḫayile 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 Getatchew HaileHaile reading Ge ez manuscripts in 2012Born 1931 04 19 April 19 1931Shenkora Shewa province Ethiopian EmpireDiedJune 11 2021 2021 06 11 aged 90 Mount Sinai Morningside New York U S NationalityEthiopian AmericanAlma materCoptic Theological Seminary B D American University in Cairo B A University of Tubingen Ph D OccupationPhilologistYears active1957 2021Notable workActa Aethiopica 1980 89 Contents 1 Early life 2 Academic career 3 Reputation 4 Personal life 5 Lectures 6 Honors and distinctions 7 Books 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditHaile was born in the rural village of Tute in Shenkora part of the province of Shoa in the Ethiopian Empire 10 As a boy he attended an Ethiopian Orthodox Church school where he learned Ge ez and devoted his energies to reading and understanding the texts 11 From 1945 to 1951 he attended Trinity School in Addis Ababa Haile moved to Cairo in 1952 and lived there through most of the 1950s graduating from the Coptic Theological College Cairo Egypt with a B D in 1957 and from the American University in Cairo with a B A in 1957 He then moved to Germany in 1957 where he received from the Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen a Ph D in Semitic Philology in 1962 The title of his dissertation was Das Verbalsystem im Athiopischen Ein morphologischer Vergleich mit den orientalischen semitischen Sprachen 11 Haile married Misrak Amare on July 12 1964 in Sidamo 12 In 1974 Haile became a member of the transitional Ethiopian Parliament from Shoa province Due to his opposition to the Derg junta 11 government soldiers came to his home to arrest him in 1975 He was involved in a shootout and eventually shot and captured After the BBC World Service and Voice of America reported on his arrest the government released him 13 Through the intervention of friends Haile was allowed to travel to London for medical treatment He became paraplegic due to severe damage to his spinal cord and needed to use a wheelchair for the remainder of his life 14 Academic career EditHaile was associate professor in the Department of Ethiopian Languages and Literature Haile Selassie 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 15 He was appointed head of the department in 1965 After arriving in the U S in 1976 Haile joined Saint John s University in Collegeville Minnesota He eventually became a Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies and Curator Emeritus of the Ethiopian Study Center at the Hill Museum amp Manuscript Library 16 5 At HMML he prepared catalogues of more than six thousand Ethiopian manuscripts and trained Ethiopic manuscript cataloguers in paleography dating and other skills 17 18 19 20 21 He was on the advisory board of a number of journals including Comite 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 22 23 In addition to his writings and translations of a variety of works on Ethiopia and the Orthodox church he produced two two volume books on the history and beliefs of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende one in 2006 24 and the other in 2011 25 His first translation into Amharic was of Mark Twain s short story Extracts from Adam s Diary in 1965 11 The languages in which he worked were Amharic Ge ez Arabic Hebrew Latin Greek German and Coptic 11 Reputation EditHaile s work has frequently been described as foundational to the field of Ethiopian studies and has won many awards 26 27 Edward Ullendorff professor of Semitic studies at the School of Oriental and Asian Studies described Haile s work as highly significant due to his profoundly erudite knowledge of Ethiopic language and literature 7 11 On another occasion Ullendorff wrote that Haile s work represented the most meticulous and original study of Ethiopic literature ever done and on a scale and depth never before attempted 28 He added no other person before Getatchew Haile has ever been able to survey so much of Ethiopic literary creation and thus to gain so sovereign a command of this genre which made a contribution not only to Ethiopian studies but also the study of Christian oriental writing more generally 28 The Ethiopian poet Amha Asfaw wrote a poem in Amharic for him in 1999 11 Personal life EditHaile and his wife Misrak Amare had four children adopted two more and had many grandchildren Among his children are the material science professor Sossina M Haile and the author Rebecca G Haile 29 Haile served as a confidante of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 1960s as well as the Church s representative to the World Council of Churches 29 Haile never returned to Ethiopia after leaving in 1975 12 He remained critical of the successive Ethiopian governments in 2005 Ethiopian authorities charged him in absentia with treason for his comments 13 Haile and his wife moved to New York City in 2016 He died at Mount Sinai Morningside hospital on June 10 2021 at the age of 90 12 President Sahle Work Zewde expressed her condolences to Haile s family in a press release 30 Lectures EditHaile gave a video lecture on the Taˀammera Maryam the Ethiopian Miracles of Mary stories on May 23 2020 Alessandro Bausi professor University of Hamburg Kay Shelemay professor Harvard University Elias Wondimu CEO of Tsehai Publishers and Habtamu Tegegne professor Rutgers University spoke about Getatchew Haile s contributions 31 In 2018 he gave an Amharic language interview for EBS TV at the Minneapolis Institute of Art 32 He also gave a video lecture at the Hill Museum amp Manuscript Library in April 2020 33 Honors and distinctions EditAbebe Bikila s Life Time Achievement Award 2018 34 Honoree of a festschrift volume in 2017 Studies in Ethiopian Languages Literature and History Festschrift for Getatchew Haile Presented by his Friends and Colleagues 35 Council of the British Academy Edward Ullendorff Medal 2014 awarded for scholarly distinction and achievements in the field of Semitic languages or Ethiopian studies 36 Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora Annual Award 1986 12 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy 1987 2021 12 MacArthur Fellows Program John D and Catherine T MacArthur Fellowship 1988 1993 5 Ethiopian Government Award for academic excellence 1991 declined 37 Member Ethiopian Parliament representing the province of Shoa 1974 75 38 Books EditThe Homily of Zar a Ya eqob s Mashafa Berhan on the Rite of Baptism and Religious Instruction CSCO text Vol 653 114 and trans Vol 654 115 Louvain Peeters 2013 39 Voices from Dabra Zamaddo Acts of Abba Bartalomewos and Abba Yoḥannǝs 45 Miracles of Mary Aethiopistische Forschungen 79 Wiesbaden 2013 40 A History of the first Estifanosite Monks 2 vols ed amp tr Louvain Peeters 2011 ISBN 978 90 429 2513 7 Amdafta Lawgahu Let Me Entertain You for a Moment An Amharic Autobiography Collegeville Minnesota 2008 41 The Ge ez Acts of Abba Esṭifanos of Gwendagwende 2 vols ed amp tr Louvain Peeters Publishers 2006 ISBN 978 90 429 1741 5 Deqiqe Istifanos Behigg Amlak Hagiographies of the Estifanosite monks who flourished and were martyred in the fifteenth century in Amharic Collegeville Minnesota 2004 42 Ya Aba Ba rey Dersatoc The Works of Abba Ba rey with Other Documents Concerning the Oromo in Amharic Collegeville Minnesota 2002 43 Bahra Hassab Computus On the Ethiopian Calendar with Annals of Ethiopian History in Amharic Collegeville Minnesota 2000 44 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 Collegeville Minnesota 1993 45 The Mariology of Emperor Zara Ya qob of Ethiopia Orientalia Christiana Analecta No 242 Rome 1992 46 Beauty of the Creation with Misrak Amare University of Manchester 1991 47 The Epistle of Humanity of Emperor Zar a Ya qob Ṭomara Tsb t Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series Vol 522 Aeth 95 tr 523 Aeth 96 1991 46 The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian Church Haymanot Msi awit Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series Vol 517 Aeth 91 1990 46 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol IX Project Numbers 3501 4000 Collegeville Minnesota 1987 ISBN 978 0 940250 55 0 The Different Collections of Nags Hymns of the Ethiopic Literature Oikonomia No 19 Erlangen Germany 1983 48 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol VIII Project Numbers 3001 3500 Collegeville Minnesota 1985 17 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol VII Project Numbers 2501 3000 with a checklist by William F Macomber Collegeville Minnesota 1983 19 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol VI Project Numbers 2001 2500 with a checklist by William F Macomber Collegeville Minnesota 1982 21 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol V Project Numbers 1501 2000 with a checklist by William F Macomber Collegeville Minnesota 1981 18 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Vol IV Project Numbers 1101 1500 Collegeville Minnesota 1979 49 Mark Twain s Letters from Earth adapted into Amharic from the German version Tagebuch von Adam und Eva Addis Ababa 1968 11 Das Verbalsystem im Athiopischen Ein morphologischer Vergleich mit den orientalischen semitischen Sprachen Diss Tubingen 1962 11 References Edit 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 a b c 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 a b 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 Haile Getatchew 2016 ʼAndafta lawgacehu in Amharic Collegeville Minnesota Getatchew Haile ISBN 978 0 9706663 4 5 OCLC 682146136 a b c d e f g h i McCollum Adam Carter 2017 Studies in Ethiopian Languages Literature and History Festschrift for Getatchew Haile Presented by His Friends and Colleagues Harrassowitz Verlag ISBN 978 3 447 10848 5 a b c d e Obituary Prof Getatchew Haile 1931 2021 Tadias Magazine June 13 2021 Retrieved June 18 2021 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link a b Bowen Amy April 8 2007 Joy amid struggle The Getatchew Haile story St Cloud Times via EthiopianReview com Columba Stewart and Getatchew Haile Preserving Words and Worlds The On Being Project Retrieved May 14 2020 Haile Rebecca G May 1 2007 Held at a Distance My Rediscovery of Ethiopia Chicago Review Press ISBN 9780897336598 Haile Getatchew Terefe Melaku 2011 Catalog of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project Casemate Publishers ISBN 9780227173503 a b Getatchew Haile 1985 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville vol VIII Project Numbers 3001 3500 Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Minn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library a b Getatchew Haile 1981 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville vol V Project Numbers 1501 2000 a b Getatchew Haile 1983 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville vol VII Project Numbers 2501 3000 William F Macomber Collegeville Minn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Getatchew Haile 1993 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 Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Minn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library a b Getatchew Haile 1982 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville vol VI Project Numbers 2001 2500 William F Macomber Collegeville Minn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Bikila Award Events bikilaaward org Retrieved June 19 2021 Ethiopianists Wendy Laura Belcher wendybelcher com Retrieved June 19 2021 The Geʻez Acts of Abba Esṭifanos of Gwendagwende Getatchew Haile Lovanii Louvain Belgium Peeters 2006 ISBN 90 429 1740 7 OCLC 84611961 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link A history of the first Esṭifanosite monks Getatchew Haile Louvain 2011 ISBN 978 90 429 2512 0 OCLC 759000813 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint others link Pankhurst Richard 1992 Beauty of the creation sәna Fәṭrat By Getatchew Haile and Misrak Amare Journal of Semitic Studies Monograph 16 pp x 87 Manchester Manchester University Press 1991 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 2 253 255 doi 10 1017 S1356186300002443 ISSN 1356 1863 S2CID 162743774 Irvine A K 1986 Stanislav Segert and Andras J E Bodrogligeti ed Ethiopian studies dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his seventy fifth birthday November 14th 1981 by friends and colleagues xii 582 pp Wiesbaden Otto Harrassowitz 1983 DM 198 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African 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Dabra Zamaddo acts of Abba Bartalomewos and Abba Yohannes 45 miracles of Mary Wiesbaden Germany ISBN 978 3 447 19290 3 OCLC 889301454 Getatchew Haile 2008 ʼAndafta lawgacehu Koleǧvil Minisota Getatchew Haile ISBN 978 0 9706663 4 5 OCLC 682146136 Getatchew Haile ጌታቸው ኃይሌ 2004 Daqiqa ʼEsṭifanos Ba ḥeg ʼAmlak Koleǧvil Minisota Minnesota ISBN 0 9706663 2 2 OCLC 60712518 Getatchew Haile ጌታቸው ኃይሌ 2002 YaʼAba Baḥrey dersatoc ʼOromocen kamimalakatu leloc sanadoc gara activeth century Baḥrey activeth century ባሕርይ Koleǧvil Minisota Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Saint John s University Collegeville Minnesota ISBN 0 9706663 1 4 OCLC 60741817 Getatchew Haile 2000 Baḥra ḥasab yazaman qwaṭara qersacen katarik mastawasa gara 1st ed Koleǧvil Minisota G Haile ISBN 0 9706663 0 6 OCLC 52508602 Getatchew Haile 1993 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 Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Collegeville Minn Hill Monastic Manuscript Library a b c Haile Getatchew 2010 Ethiopia PDF In Patte Daniel ed The Cambridge dictionary of Christianity Cambridge Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 1 139 00792 4 OCLC 707078776 Pankhurst Richard 1992 Review of Beauty of the Creation Sena Feṭrat Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2 2 253 255 doi 10 1017 S1356186300002443 ISSN 1356 1863 JSTOR 25182514 S2CID 162743774 Irvine A K June 1985 Getatchew Haile The different collections of nags hymns in Ethiopic literature and their contributions Oikonomia Quellen und Studien zur Orthodoxen Theologie Bd 19 viii 104 PP Erlangen Lehrstuhl fur Geschichte und Theologie des christlichen Ostens 1983 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48 2 364 doi 10 1017 S0041977X00033632 ISSN 0041 977X S2CID 177283389 Getatchew Haile 1979 A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library Addis Ababa and for 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