Names
Birth
1928
Period of Activity
He was a prominent scholar of Ethiopian Studies who succeeded in the institutionalization of the discipline within the German language Oriental studies framework. He studied Oriental languages, theology and law from 1946 to 1958. In 1958, he was ordained as an old Catholic priest. In 1968, he was appointed as Extraordinary Professor in the University of Saarbrücken. In 1970, he became a full Professor of African Studies in the University of Hamburg↗ where he lectured Ethiopian Studies, Codicolgy, Gǝʿǝz, Ethiopian Church and history in the focus of his attention. He was also the founder of Aethiopistische Forschungen, the only scholarly monograph series specializng exclusively in Ethiopian Studies. He also catalogued the Ethiopian manuscripts from the libraries of Lake Lake Tana↗ and published in 1983. He assembled a rich specialized private library today in possession of Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg.
Death
He died at Vienna↗ in 1993.
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Names
- Ernst Hammerschmidt
Dates
Birth: 1928
Period of activity: 1958–1993
Death: 1993
Occupation
scholar
Faith
Catholicism
Nationality
Germany
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Uhlig, S. 2005. ‘Hammerschmidt, Ernst’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 993b–994a.
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RICCI, L. 1993. ‘Ernst Hammerschmidt’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 35 (1993), 177–179. page 177-179
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Hammerschmidt, E. 1960. Äthiopische liturgische Texte der Bodleian Library in Oxford, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung, Veröffentlichung, 38 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1960).
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Hammerschmidt, E. 1973. Äthiopische Handschriften vom Ṭānāsee 1: Reisebericht und Beschreibung der Handschriften in dem Kloster des Heiligen Gabriel auf der Insel Kebrān, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, 20/1 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1973).
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Hammerschmidt, E. 1987. Studies in the Ethiopic Anaphoras, Äthiopistische Forschungen, 25, (2nd rev. edn) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1987).
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Hammerschmidt, E. 1977. Äthiopische Handschriften vom Ṭānāsee 2: Die Handschriften von Dabra Māryām und von Rēmā, Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, 20/2 (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1977).
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