Wolf Leslau
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
Birth
1906
Period of Activity
He was one of the most prominent ethiopisants of the 20th century. He published over 300 books, articles and reviews. He was an accomplished lexicographer and philologist. His interests lay mostly in the field of descriptive and comparative linguistics, but also philology and ethnography.
Death
He died four days after his 100th birthday in 2006.
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Names
- Wolf Leslau
Dates
Birth: 1906
Period of activity: 1930–2006
Death: 2006
Occupation
scholar
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
Poland
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Devens, M. 2007. ‘Leslau, Wolf’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 552b–553b.
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Müller, W. W. 2007. ‘Zum Gedenken an Wolf Leslau (1906-2006)’, Aethiopica, 10 (2007), 210–218.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻWolf Leslauʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-04-19) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS6271Leslau [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 19.4.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor