Alessandro Bausi#
| Membership Number: | 3321 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/afrika/bausi.html http://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/AlessandroBausi |
| ORCID: | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7575-7513 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010, 04 Director of the Abteilung Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts, Asien-Afrika-Institut
- 2009, 09 Professor for Ethiopian studies at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts
- 2009, 09 Director of the Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Arts
- 2006/2007 Adjunct Professor of Ethiopian Philology at Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics, Philology MA program
- 2005, 11-12 Visiting Professor of the Hiob-Ludolf-Stiftung at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of the University of Hamburg
- 2002,11-2009,08 Associate Professor of Ethiopic language and literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Faculty of Arts
- 2001 - 2002 Appointed Professor for Ethiopian history and institutions
- 1999 - 2002 Appointed Professor for Ethiopic language and literature
- 1995, 02 Assistant Professor at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, Department for Studies on African and Arab Countries
Fields of Scholarship
- Ethiopic (Geez) philology and literature
- Text-critical philology
- Manuscript studies
- Apocrypha
- Hagiography
- Semitic studies
- Christian Oriental studies
- Late antique and medieval history
- Aksumite history and culture
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Awarded with the “Giorgio Maria Sangiorgi” prize of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for History and Ethnology of Africa
- 2013 Awarded with the European Research Council “Ideas” Advanced Grant for the Project “TraCES – From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages” (2014-2019)
- 2015 Awarded with the Union of German Academies Long Term Grant for the Project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” at the Academy of Sciences of Hamburg (2016-2040)
