Alessandro Bausi#
Biography#
Alessandro Bausi (1963, MA 1988 University of Florence, PhD 1992 Naples Oriental Institute) is Full Professor for Ethiopian Studies at Sapienza Università di Roma, Faculty of Humanities, Department Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo (November 2023–). Formerly Assistant (1995) and Associate Professor (2002) of Ethiopic Language and Literature at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, he has been Full Professor (W3) for Ethiopian Studies (Äthiopistik) at the Universität Hamburg, Faculty of Humanities, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Abteilung für Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik (September 2009–October 2023). He has been the editor of the journal Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies (2009–2023) and of its Supplements series (2013–2023), and of the series Aethiopistische Forschungen (2010–2023). He is consultant for Gǝʿǝz and Ethiopian and Eritrean studies for several other series and journals, including the Scriptores Aethiopici of the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium (2010–), and the Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (2011–). Editor of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (2010–2014), Chair of the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies networking programme (funded by the European Science Foundation 2009–2014), and head of the European Research Council Advanced Grant Project ‘TraCES: From Translation to Creation: Changes in Ethiopic Style and Lexicon from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages’ (2014–2019), he is now heading the long-term project of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg ‘Beta maṣāḥǝft: Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung’ (2016–2040). He is a member of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at Universität Hamburg (2011–2023, permanent fellow since November 2023) and has been Co-spokeperson of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts: Materiality, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’ (2019–2023). He is a member of several scholarly associations, and of the Academia Europaea, the Accademia Ambrosiana, the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He has extensively published on Ethiopian and Eritrean textual and manuscript cultures and especially contributed on the earliest phase of ancient scribal, linguistic, and literary history, epigraphy, canonical, hagiographical, and liturgical collections, and on textual criticism.
Current affiliation#
Sapienza Università di Roma, Faculty of Humanities, Department Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo (November 2023–), Full Professor for Ethiopian Studies.
